You should. It happens all the time, and more often than not whitewashed later so if you read the history later all looks dandy and nothing more than a minor he

You should. It happens all the time, and more often than not whitewashed later so if you read the history later all looks dandy and nothing more than a minor healthy disagreement. Dan Shechtman had to wait for Linus Pauling to die to be unlabeled as fraud (and later receive a nobel). Turns out he wasn’t the first to observe the supposedly impossible 5-fold crystal symmetry - but he was the only one willing to risk his name and career to make it known (and was not far from being pushed out as a fraud). Barbara McClintock had a similar story with jumping genes. Semmelweis with washing hands. There are cranks, of course, and they likely outnumber the real discoverers 100:1 - but the price of knowledge is eternal vigilance against prevailing dogmas, especially those of deferring everything to leaders of the field.