50 Historical Figures People Thought Were Nuts At The Time But Were Proven To Be Right Years Later

Yep, and after he died, the government gave a half-hearted apology, saying that the police should never have arrested him. Too little too late

Nothing fishy about it. You sufficiently embarrass China on the international stage, you die. It happens over and over.

No, not fishy. Just China. What else do you expect?

I believe his death was actually announced twice. Absolutely un-fishy

it's downright batty

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Absolutely.

Surely it would be far more fishy if he became immortal?

Died from covid, too.

By awarding him the "May 4th Medal" China admits it was wrong and he was right. Very rare for China to admit a mistake. Perhaps someone in the government sent the patient to him who was infected but not known to be infected to the good doctor. The person thought to have given him COVID. He somehow trusted that this person was not infected. The question should be why?

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It's not fishy that a man who was exposed to Coronavirus before they knew what it was died of coronavirus. That's how the virus works.

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Died him?

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Not sure what you insinuated here but he died from Covid.

I mean the story that got widely popularized was basically "stupid Karen wants millions because she didn't know coffee is hot" (courtesy of a powerful corporation controlling the narrative and making the story worthy of mockery). If it happened today and was shared like this on Bored Panda y'all would mock her too. Who knows how many Karen stories on this page are one-sided or twisted by the narrator in a similar way.

Part of the terms for the money she got, I believe, was that she couldn't talk about the case. So she was not able to defend herself. Large companies used this case to push for Tort reform, allowing them to have caps on their payouts when they're actually liable for damages. They used the example of suing for coffee being hot as a rallying point to trick voters into voting in these caps. So, now if you have a life long injury that was a billion dollars company's fault you may hit a cap to how much money/care you'll be able to get.

I was wrong. I never drank coffee as a kid or now,. I did not know the facts. I feel bad.

I mean really! Have to be older, have your genitals mutilated by over hot coffee and then be mocked. Ftw man. People are so mean

Me too and I never hesitated to tell people the entire story instead of let that kind of ignorance stand.

This is the sort of thing that puts me off stand up comedians, when they haven't done their research.

I don't. Most of the stories from the USA, on bored-uncoloured-bear are jokes to me. Not funny jokes tho.

I hate the fact that I mocked her before I finally learned all the facts. :-/

Me too. A worker spilled coffee on me (accidentally) some years after this happened, and it's probably the only reason I didn't get badly burned.

When I first heard this lawsuit as a kid I thought it was a joke and it was not needed lawsuit. But years later I looked it up and was absolutely dumb struck how hot the coffee was. I make coffee / hot chocolate on open fires while camping and it never gets anywhere close to that temperature. In my opinion what that woman suffered she should have got more money. She was miserable until the day she died at 91. She had to have a living nurse and was constantly needed care for the damage done by the coffee.

She's in the company of Greats.

It took me a really long time to come to terms with this one because of just how stupid people are and how ridiculous most of our warning labels are. Like really, someone somewhere had to be told not to use their hair dryer in the shower?? Fvck.

At the time, I don't recall it being reported that it happened to others as well. It does sound ridiculous at 1st.

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Why did she need to told that coffee would be hot, why should I have to have coffee / tea / "hot" chocolate that's barely drinkable because of one clumsy person, and why in the hell do people confuse burn and scald??

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It's what opened up the floodgates of lawsuits around the USA at that time, now everyone one sues cause they can.

It is really just one country I so far have heard from who "file lawsuits for all sorts of petty reasons". But, I can understand why they do it in some cases. Without proper healthcare this is probably the only way for some to get their medical bills covered. And really, if they get injured by a third party, who could blame them for suing for medical bills?

Isn’t it funny how the “established” people in any group will do their best to ruin someone who challenges their practices, even though that person is right? Deaths plummeted while Semmelweis was working there, then skyrocketed after he left. Amazing how supposedly educated people like doctors could have their heads stuffed so far up their own asses that they couldn’t put two and two together and see the connection. Ego f*****g kills people, whether the egotist is a doctor, a CEO, or the “leader” of a country.

It should be mentioned that he came to the conclusion after asking himself why the mortality rate for women and babies were much lower when the birth was only managed by a midwife (who instinctively keep a certain hygiene standead and didn't rummaged with their hands in dead bodies). It nagged him that this 'illiterawomen folk' had so much better statistics and only the poorest of the poor chose the men-lead hospital for delivery as they couldn't afford to pay a midwife.

Wow, that is shocking. All those people women and children who died unnecessarily.

Wow, I never knew this! 45 years old and still learning new things.

Hell, even if they didn't know about bacteria, delivering babies after performing autopsy on rotting corpse without washing their hands seems absulutelly disgusting. And the fact they didn't even want to try washing their hands... they probably were bunch of entitled twats.

Ok- they didn’t understand but who doesn’t want to wash their hands after digging around in a rotten body? Isn’t there blood?

*corpse

Corpse*. But yeah this guy got shafted pretty badly.

I remember learning about this. The other doctors objected on the basis that they were "gentlemen," and "gentlemen" did not NEED to wash their hands because "gentlemen" could not possibly be "unclean." That was for those nasty poor people (sarcasm, if it's not obvious). Essentially, the other doctors were victim-blaming the poor women for being poor, and therefore, in their eyes "unclean" because of it. I'm glad Dr. Semmelweis's methods prevailed in the end, though I'm sad when I see how many innocents ended up dying because others wouldn't take a cold, hard, look at the facts and figures he presented.

God help us, they really do.

Your example is quite the opposite of this story!

This is the most horrendous part of it. He wouldn't stop talking about washing ones hands to prevent people dying, and as a result his colleauges got so annoyed that they put him in an insane asylum, effectively killing him. They killed him for telling them to wash their hands! 💔

Build one yourself: Step one - drink a lot of wine... step two - what was I about to do?