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The most recent event that comes to my mind is the lead up to the discovery of H. pylori causing gastric ulcers.
by xattt 6y ago
The most recent event that comes to my mind is the lead up to the discovery of H. pylori causing gastric ulcers.
- sterlind 6y agoTectonic plates was another big one.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThis is a current fun topic with some controversy related to tectonic plates: do solar flares cause earthquakes? https://astronomy.com/news/2020/07/powerful-eruptions-on-the-sun-might-trigger-earthquakes https://astronomy.com/news/2020/07/powerful-eruptions-on-the...
- Enginerrrd 6y agoDespite being a really stupid-sounding premise, that is actually kind of interesting.
- treeman79 6y agoPeoples position on that one shifted very slowly.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agosir, may I see your dad license please?
- ryandrake 6y agoIt’s not his fault that the joke was dad-worthy.
- dboreham 6y agoBut when they did shift, it was a...
- eloff 6y agoYeah that's a good one. Another is recommending trans-fat based margarine over butter. That was counter-productive health advice that took decades to reverse - even although the evidence it was based on was extremely flimsy. Once the group-think machine gets going in a direction, it has a tremendous amount of inertia.
- logicchains 6y ago>That was counter-productive health advice that took decades to reverse - even although the evidence it was based on was extremely flimsy. I think this was more a case of lobbying by certain agricultural producers than ignorance. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14823257_Food_Lobbies_the_Food_Pyramid_and_US_Nutrition_Policy https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14823257_Food_Lobbi...
- pdimitar 6y agoTrue, but the point still stands: a lot of people can be influenced by something no matter its origins. Once they can say "X thousand can't be wrong" then you and your pesky idea backed up by facts and evidence can go to hell. Sadly history is full of such occurrences.
- eth0up 6y agoAppend Ignaz Semmelweis to this important list, which is a plump one.
- hntrader 6y agoAnother: Many World's Interpretation of QM. Not known to be true but less ridiculed and more widely subscribed.
- astrange 6y agoThe inventor of the COVID mRNA vaccine was fired from her tenure position because UPenn thought the idea wouldn't work. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfi...