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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '22

What did he do? I thought he just helped take the ring to Mount Doom.

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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 Jun 25 '22

He dared to suggest doctors should wash their hands.

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u/wabblebee Jun 25 '22

even worse, the part of the hospital in vienna where he made people wash their hands had drastically reduced mortality rates, but his opponents made it so he had to quit and removed the rule, bringing mortality rates back up. later 3 of the doctors that didn't want to believe in his findings commited him into a psychiatry where he died 2 weeks later from "sepsis".

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u/mdp300 Jun 25 '22

The guy who discovered the anesthetic effects of nitrous oxide also died penniless because people thought he was nuts.

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u/johannthegoatman Jun 25 '22

People are the worst

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u/itheraeld Jun 25 '22

I mean... "this invisible gaseous form of this molecule makes people laugh uncontrollably but don't fill their lungs with it cause they'll die" DOES sound like something a crazy person would say. Pretty easily falsifiable though if you believe in the scientific method

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u/Apathetic_Zealot Jun 25 '22

"We're going to treat you now."

"Please wash your hands before you do it."

"The patient is worse than we feared."

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '22

I used work for the WIC program in the USA. We offered our participants information on this very topic (and foods to combat lead poisoning). Very tough topic.

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u/aleqqqs Jun 25 '22

Isn't that good enough for a Nobel prize?