environment ethics question

Now that you have read this section...ponder this....

1. In what way did religious dogma impede scientific research in regard to barometers and pose a threat to scientists and conclusions they might reach?
   
   
2. Do you see evidence that this has happened in other times in human history? What about today?

 write an essay around 1000 words. the attachments are the reading resources, the above sentences are requirements.