An aspect of this that is seldom remembered is that Semmelweiss was a HUGE jerk, which didn't help adoption. Instead of telling or showing other doctors how things could be better, he called them barbarian murderers for not washing their hands. It was a decade before he'd even have a civil conversation about it, or publish for peer review.

There's a lesson in that...sometimes being right isn't enough on it's own.

That the laparascopic pioneer's name is Semm is unreal. You couldn't make it up.

I found this definition very strange, from its choice of words and mentioning “undeveloped planets”?!

"Mob behavior found among primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets, in which a discovery of important scientific fact is punished"

This effect is currently happening on Alzheimer's research: people, including veteran experts, are rejecting the viral theory because it's so crazy.

Maybe in a few years we'll lament that...