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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Sinead O’Connor - she was vilified for ripping up a photo of the pope to protest child abuse within the Catholic Church. Spoiler alert - the Catholic Church was covering up child abuse.

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834points

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Rost it 2 years ago

I dont think any reasonable people thought she was crazy. this has been known for years. the catholic church is one of the worst organizations in the world. They have killed more people over the years than any country.

33points

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Stanislav Petrov. Though we don't see him as crazy, I'm sure his crewmates thought he was. He directly disobeyed Soviet military protocols and prevented a nuclear war.

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Final score:

755points

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Romenriel 2 years ago

One of the few real people that can say they literally saved the world.

20points

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Rose McGowan was completely ostracized and blacklisted for talking about Weinstein too early.

sagieday , wikipedia.org Report

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696points

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

That took a lot of guts to talk about that pos.

236points

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Tesla. Edison is still credited with the lightbulb. His last words put it into perspective "All these years that I had spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humiliation"

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621points

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IlovemydogShilo 2 years ago (edited)

This picture 😂. Hellllloooooooo ladies.

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along The inventor of dialysis, Dr. Willem Kolff. Although it's hard to blame them, haha. He saw people dying of kidney disease and said "Hey, what if we take all of the blood out of your body, clean it, and put it back in?" (Cleaning your blood is the job of your kidneys, and a dialysis machine is basically an artificial kidney, on the *outside* of your body.) It was a wild idea and he started his work during WWII and had to work with basic materials like orange juice cans, sausage skins, and a washing machine. Many of the first patients died, but they were already going to die painfully. Eventually, he ironed the kinks out and started saving lives.

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602points

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Hawkmoon 2 years ago

And now, many people, without hesitation, directly believe any dumb influencer who tells them to drink a detox drink because that's "useful and beneficial for your health". Strange world.

218points

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Lisa Bonet. She was vilified for hating Cosby in the 80s. Who’s the villain now?

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Lorrie Rothstein 2 years ago

He didnt like when she was naked in a movie. He had her character denise leave diffrent world because she was pregnabt in real life

107points

Corey Feldman talking about child sex abuse in Hollywood.

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Ewelina Rydzewska 2 years ago

Poor Corey😞

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along John Yudkin. The single scientist who didn't believe the sugar industry's research that demonized fats. Till his death he's adamant that fats weren't the cause of obesity and heart attacks.

HayakuEon , Faran Raufi Report

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513points

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rumade 2 years ago

Yup, my mum read his book Pure, White and Deadly many years ago. People thought he was a conspiracy nut, because *surely* fat in food leads to fat in arteries. Tell that to the people who live in the Arctic Circle and traditionally eat large amounts of seal blubber. To be honest though, I hate this crusade against sugar we're now having. In the UK everything is packed with artificial sweeteners. I'd rather have real sugar, in small quantities as a treat than eat sweeteners regularly. There's emerging evidence that they do damage to your gut microbiome.

31points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along There was a wacko looking guy on Oprah who stopped his vanilla presentation to tell the audience that plastic causes cancer, stop using it to store food and water.

Oprah cut to commercial and whisked him off the show.

Dude was right. BPAs were outed that day, but it took another decade for that info to become public knowledge.

Firethorn101 , wikipedia.org Report

Final score:

510points

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Michelle Reynolds 2 years ago

Oprah is a HORRIBLE person!

33points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Will Rogers a humorist when he invented the term "trickle-down" economics as a joke stating that this type of economy would just make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

And then we actually implemented it and used the term trickle-down. And Will Rogers was right.

The rent has gone though the roof and our salaries have stagnated and we can't afford "The American Dream" anymore.

Final score:

501points

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

The fact anyone voted twice for the administration that implemented trickle-down economics still shocks me, and I was alive for both times Reagan was voted in... And old enough to cry both times, too.

29points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Hemingway talked about the FBI following him prior to his suicide. They thought he was paranoid. Decades later some papers get released, turns out the FBI was following him.

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483points

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Nunya Bus 2 years ago

I think at a certain point people should have just assumed every single famous person during Hoover's reign, be they a poet, author, actor, politician or activist was under FBI surveillance.

15points

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Rutherford B Hayes. Not necessarily viewed as crazy, but largely viewed as a bad or useless president.

"This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations."

Said that in the late 1800's.

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477points

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

He was POTUS 1876-81, after a very nasty election (think: the 2016 of its day). The qoute can be found in "The Diary & Letters" of same, published in the edition I've seen in 1920-something.

74points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along During the plague in Moscow there was a priest (or something) DIScouraging people kissing the statue of Maria, as to stop the spreading of the virus.

The poor man was burned alive for blasphemy.

JustAbel , Yuri Levchenko Report

Final score:

462points

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Bernd Herbert 2 years ago

Aww, the good old times where the church had much more power and religious beliefs were more common than nowadays.

109points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Giordano Bruno was (probably) the first European who proposed the possibility that not only was the universe infinite, but stars were not just points of light in the sky; they could be suns with their own planets, and that some of those planets might even host life.

The Catholic Church had him tried for Heresy and had him burned at the stake and his contemporaries though he was completely insane. He had some kooky ideas, but he was absolutely right about the size of the universe and stars being suns with their own planets.

Final score:

430points

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Catherine Côté 2 years ago

But we don't talk about him (Bruno) 😂

189points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Craig Ferguson having empathy for Britney Spears in his 2007 monologue.

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418points

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

Free Britney! Hooray, now she can get on with her life.

66points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Remember the government accountant in George W Bush’s presidency who said the war in Afghanistan would cost a billion dollars a month and he was fired? Well, he was right. It was 300 million dollars per day for 20 years.

CategoryTurbulent114 , Towfiqu barbhuiya Report

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387points

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Stephen Leifer 2 years ago (edited)

At least former Halliburton CEO, Cheney, got his company no-bid contracts to help rebuild Iraq.

94points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Anyone who covered their webcam camera.

ironwolf6464 , Emiliano Cicero Report

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374points

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Xottel 2 years ago

Which is weird because never have I witnessed anyone cover their phone camera.

93points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Heinrich Schliemann. He 100% believed that ancient Troy had really existed. So he armed himself with a copy of the Iliad, and actually managed to find and excavate the city. He'd told everyone and their sister that Troy was a real place for 40 years before he found it, and everyone thought he was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Not so much, it turns out.

Final score:

363points

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troufaki13 2 years ago

He ruined half of it in the excavation process... :(

122points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Martha Mitchell.. She was like part of the reason why it was discovered that Nixon was involved in Watergate. Her husband was part of the Nixon group so she got some inside details. When she wanted to tell the news about the whole scandal, her husband and Nixon men put her in a hotel and restrained her from having any contact with anyone. She was seen as an insane person her husband and Nixon's men even managed to convince the psychiatrists that she was out of her mind.

Actually there's a phenomenon in psychology which was named after her a.k.a the Martha Mitchell Effect

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Final score:

347points

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K D 2 years ago

From Wikipedia: “The Martha Mitchell effect refers to the process by which a psychiatrist, psychologist, mental health clinician, or other medical professional labels a patient's accurate perception of real events as delusional, resulting in misdiagnosis.”

223points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Charles Darwin. The religious outcry against evolution was engineered by his academic rivals more than from religious resistance. But even now, after all that politics is centuries dead, there remain people who categorically resist demonstrable fact because of it.

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Final score:

330points

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Wintermute 2 years ago

This should be more commonly known. I didn't learn about the roots of the rejection of evolution until I was in a college level anthropology course. I always assumed it was a religious objection. Just proves that religion isn't qualified to know what it's upset about.

7points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Galileo - he believed the Earth and other planets orbited the Sun, contrary to popular belief that all stars and planets orbited Earth. The Catholic Church called it heresy, and ordered him to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin a trial for his beliefs.

FluffyUnicorn949 , wikipedia.org Report

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321points

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Stephen Leifer 2 years ago (edited)

Galileo knew to tread lightly. His colleague, Giordano Bruno, was executed via burning at the stake for believing in heliocentricity.

105points

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Rachel Caron found that DDT was weakening the shells of bird eggs and contributing to the decline in the bald eagle population. She faced quite a bit of backlash from publishing her book "Silent Spring" detailing her research on the topic.

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315points

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Jane Martin 2 years ago

Rachel Carson - guessing Caron is just a typo

132points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Eisenhower. Re: The military–industrial complex

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

going_dot_global , wikipedia.org Report

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308points

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Matthew Coughlin 2 years ago

And no one talks about Eisenhower's 99% taxation plan on businesses unless they increased wages, offered more benefits, gave payed time off, etc.

22points

#25

Carrie Nation of the Temperance/Prohibition movement

She has been ridiculed and lambasted by history as a kooky, prudish anti-alcohol crusader. But she was actually a diligent progressive activist working through a proto-social justice lens.

Her beef wasn't with alcohol, but rather with distilleries and suppliers flooding small towns with enormous quantities of cheap, low-quality liquor with the explicit intent of turning emotionally devastated WWI veterans into drunkards for profit. (The knock-on effects of that campaign included rampant domestic violence and poverty.)

Gal was working to uplift the most vulnerable people and is only remembered for making a show of smashing bottles.

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303points

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Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago

Anyone who publicly tries to uplift the vulnerable will be made a mockery by the powerful; it's not within their agenda to share power.

192points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along All the people that said the NSA/CIA was spying on us for years.
Thanks to edward Snowden we now know that was true and it was so much so that the NSA had built back doors in pretty much every single electronic device that exsists all the way down to the network switch level on cisco switches and the internet backbone through AT&T network hubs. The fact that there wasnt mass revolt after that information was released kinda blew my mind.

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266points

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Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago

I'm likely in a minority but I really don't give any f***s if people want to waste time listening into my daily life/phone/emails etc - all they're going to get is me talking c**p with mates, my husband and my kids, meme wars that go on for months at a time, the insane number of cake decorating videos I watch and my true crime obsession. I don't see some government employed person bored oot their tits seeing the drivel people talk as an invasion of privacy - and if snooping on folks interactions prevents some big disaster like the twin towers then I think it's worth it. And I kinda like the fact I'll mention wanting a new mattress and then getting every ad directed towards mattresses, it reminds me to look for them when I'd likely otherwise forget as my brain is like Swiss cheese

112points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Boltzman spend his life trying to prove his formula but ended up commiting suicide because none of his collegues believed him. Now, his formula is basically the 'amen' in thermodynamics.

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213points

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Felice Coles 2 years ago

Did his colleagues take credit for it?

26points

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Morgan Robertson.

In 1898 he published a story about a ship named the Titan, a fictional ship, that sinks after hitting an iceberg. Allegedly (and I can’t find any proof of this) it was initially dismissed for being too outlandish.

14 years later, the Titanic sinks in an eerily similar fashion. Robertson dismissed all claims of being psychic, and was just familiar with ships of the time and their flaws.

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203points

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Alias Delfs 2 years ago

Not a psychic, you sure?

18points

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along I don't know that guy's name but he basically from 1541-1542 travelled accross south america. The first european to do so. While he was on his journey he said he saw millions of people and large cities , with a lot of life in them , where today is the amazon rainforest.After he had finished his journey he had told the stories of those cities and about a hundred years later when explorers visited the place there was nothing , no cities , no people , just jungle. So they thought he had made all that up. But modern technology has shown that there might have accually been a lot of cities there , and that those people died out with smallpox and all cities were covered by the jungle within the course of 50 years. So basically people thought he was crazy and made everything up but in modern times its proven that he was right all along.

softredina , Isaac Quesada Report

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Julie Bruton 2 years ago

The explorer was Francisco de Orellana. The YouTube link for the BBC documentary, Unnatural Histories, is https://youtu.be/ihvySe6yROE

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30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Dr. Atkins.

When his first book 'The New Diet Revolution' came out, he was mocked and ridiculed for thinking that refined sugars, flour, and starch caused the glycemic index to skyrocket which led to your body storing fat. When he died people thought he died from his own diet.

Keto-acidosis and how you can lose weight by reducing your glycemic index was largely his research.

It was later stolen and copied and called 'The Zone Diet' and 'The Caveman Diet' and 'The Paleo Diet' which were all based on his work.

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145points

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troufaki13 2 years ago

Exclusive diets are bad, unless there's a medical reason.

152points

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

I'm surprised Johnny Rotten isn't on the list. Banned by the BBC in 1978 for calling out Jimmy Saville as a predator.

25points

Tiny Dancer 2 years ago

Yeah, there's even an audio recording of him calling Jimmy out (https://boingboing.net/2022/04/12/watch-johnny-rotten-call-out-jimmy-savile-decades-before-netflix.html), but the BBC refused to air it back then. I couldn't stand the man (Johnny) when he was with the Pistols and he's still a bit of the old "mad lad", but his recent interviews and comments have been spot-on.

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APL 2 years ago (edited)

Yeah...according to Johnny Rotten. All he actually said at the time was "he's a hypocrite...I bet he's into all kinds of seediness we don't know about".

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weatherwitch 2 years ago

Yes, he absolutely should have been on the list but it's up to the Bored Panda community to submit the information. I never find a thread in the making to add a story 😔

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Šimon Špaček 2 years ago

Thor Heyerdahl. That guy said that it is completely possible to build a raft in South America (I think it was in Peru) and use it to sail to Philiphines. Many experts didn't believe him, so he made a party of six or seven guys, built the raft and made the journey.

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Julie Anna Schultz 2 years ago

The Kon Tiki?

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Romenriel 2 years ago

Many more scientists. On top of my head, Barbara McClintock, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Ignaz Semmelweis (especially Ignaz Semmelweis), Frances Oldham Kelsey and likely many more. Some of them were proven right in their lifetime and received high honors, some of them didn't live to see fruits of their labour.

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APL 2 years ago

Semmelweis! I was trying to remember his name. Yes, he should have been up there.

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Fake Name 2 years ago

Ignaz Semmelweis. Pioneered the norm of handwashing. Doctors ridiculed him for theorizing that the cause of women dying in childbirth was none other than their own hands. He was thrown into prison where he died from an illness.

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Paw Paw 2 years ago

I'm waiting for the time that John Anthony West is validated about his findings on the age of the Pyramids and The Sphinx.- 14,000 years. Of course people called him crazy, but his research is based on Geology, not Archeology. As I see it, and my Geology prof agreed, Geology is an exact science. Archeology is interpretive, and at times, makes things either "fit", or disappear. Interesting dilemma.

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John Baker 2 years ago

Just because you're right doesn't mean you aren't crazy. And some of these people may not have been crazy, but neither were they right.

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Angela Turrall 2 years ago

Came here to say the similar, a handful of these people were considered crazy anyway, and were just considered more crazy or the crazy label was (very very wrongly) weaponised against them, as a result of their beliefs or statements, despite them being correct. Sadly all too common in Hollywood especially, and far too effective against women.

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Kate Jones 2 years ago

It's sad how many of these people were negatively affected by religion and religious views of others. And it's still happening. It's like we never learn to stop allowing religion to dictate our government or people's lives just in general.

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M Bartlett 2 years ago

Please change keto-acidosis to ketosis. They are NOT the same thing. Keto-acidosis is life threatening.

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Panda-riffic 2 years ago

I'm not a grammarian, but who wrote these entries?

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Yo Momma 2 years ago

And this is why I keep an open mind to everything. Research for myself. I don't trust the government, doctors, political figures, scientists, teachers, etc. They all tell you what they want you to hear.

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 2 years ago

Alfred Wegener was thought to be crazy when he presented his theory on continental drift

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

Denying continental drift always blew my mind. What, did europe and north america both independently evolve foxes and bears from the first single-celled organisms? Clearly the continents were joined for most of earth's history. I remember clearly as a 5 year old in kindergarten looking at a globe of earth and saying "hey I see south america fits against africa". It's so obvious it's painful.

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Jevon Johnson 2 years ago

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Karen Sandness 2 years ago

Actually, yes. The original Salk vaccine needed boosters, and so did the smallpox vaccine.

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Seb Benson 2 years ago

Congratulations you've won the internet today for the dumbest post imaginable.

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APL 2 years ago

Do shut up, idiot. Have you never heard of tetanus boosters? And UFO just means any flying thing that hasn't been identified, so of COURSE they're real. You might as well say Men in Black are real because you own a tuxedo.

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Donkey boi 2 years ago

I'm surprised Johnny Rotten isn't on the list. Banned by the BBC in 1978 for calling out Jimmy Saville as a predator.

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Tiny Dancer 2 years ago

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APL 2 years ago (edited)

Yeah...according to Johnny Rotten. All he actually said at the time was "he's a hypocrite...I bet he's into all kinds of seediness we don't know about".

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weatherwitch 2 years ago

Yes, he absolutely should have been on the list but it's up to the Bored Panda community to submit the information. I never find a thread in the making to add a story 😔

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Šimon Špaček 2 years ago

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Julie Anna Schultz 2 years ago

The Kon Tiki?

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Romenriel 2 years ago

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APL 2 years ago

Semmelweis! I was trying to remember his name. Yes, he should have been up there.

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Fake Name 2 years ago

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Paw Paw 2 years ago

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John Baker 2 years ago

Just because you're right doesn't mean you aren't crazy. And some of these people may not have been crazy, but neither were they right.

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Angela Turrall 2 years ago

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Kate Jones 2 years ago

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M Bartlett 2 years ago

Please change keto-acidosis to ketosis. They are NOT the same thing. Keto-acidosis is life threatening.

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Panda-riffic 2 years ago

I'm not a grammarian, but who wrote these entries?

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Yo Momma 2 years ago

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 2 years ago

Alfred Wegener was thought to be crazy when he presented his theory on continental drift

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

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Jevon Johnson 2 years ago

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Karen Sandness 2 years ago

Actually, yes. The original Salk vaccine needed boosters, and so did the smallpox vaccine.

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