In the 1930’s, it became a crime (in a certain large country) to think that plants had genes that gave heritable traits. Thousands of scientists, biologists, a

In the 1930’s, it became a crime (in a certain large country) to think that plants had genes that gave heritable traits. Thousands of scientists, biologists, agricultural researchers and others were imprisioned or executed for disagreeing or previously having held the wrong view. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism Sure, there a lot of evil and stupidity said on Twitter, and through human history. But not everyone who is punished for what they said was saying something wrong.