> I cannot count the amount of times I've read about scientists in the past getting ridiculed for some "crackpot" theory only to be vindicated later. A famous

> I cannot count the amount of times I've read about scientists in the past getting ridiculed for some "crackpot" theory only to be vindicated later. A famous example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis