> Current "experts" are really terrible about defending their current belief system, and actual evidence be damned. While it is true that Semmelweis could have

> Current "experts" are really terrible about defending their current belief system, and actual evidence be damned. While it is true that Semmelweis could have communicated his ideas better than he did, his true problem was that he had the brilliance to see and test the correlation he could not show causation: There was no direct evidence of the germ theory of disease. We had to wait a few more decades for Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.