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The "Semmelweiss reflex" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex
by MaysonL 8y ago
The "Semmelweiss reflex" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex
- bookofjoe 8y agoThat the laparascopic pioneer's name is Semm is unreal. You couldn't make it up.
- morgancmartin 8y agoWow, given the context, I just immediately assumed it was coined because of the story OP detailed. An incredible coincidence!
- knodi123 8y agoto paraphrase randall munroe, what are the odds that we would have two unrelated US presidents whose names both started with T-R-U-M ?
- omneity 8y agoI 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"
- joaomacp 8y agoThis 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...
- zaphod12 8y agoAn 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.
- klmr 8y agoSemmelweis also couldn’t explain why his procedure supposedly worked. Again that’s hugely problematic: a sound theory requires an explanatory framework. Otherwise it’s just not convincing.