24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online

Truth – a very subjective thing that the majority find hard to accept. Many spend their lives advocating for their beliefs but either get ridiculed or aren’t taken seriously, only to be proven to be correct when it’s way too late. Ever wondered who those people are? Well, today’s your lucky day!

“Who are some people who died telling us the truth?” – this netizen took to Reddit, inviting its members to share the names and stories of those who perished in their pursuit of truth. The thread garnered nearly 30K upvotes as well as 5.3K comments.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Carrie Fisher. She tried exposing Harvey Weinstein long before anyone else did, and was labelled ‘crazy’ because of it. She died about a year before the truth was revealed

unknownselection , Riccardo Ghilardi Report

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Zombie Gurl 1 year ago

She's my Princess Leia. My star wars idol. Rest in peace

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Ignaz Semmelweis. The first doctor to implement hand washing in hospitals. It’s saved millions of lives and is the single greatest innovation in medicine.

For his radical theory, that doctors were killing patients by not washing their hands, he was shunned from the medical profession by his peers. The rejection and failure to adopt hand washing drove him mad. His rival took his job and had him sent to the asylum. He died 4 days after being committed, from injuries he sustained from being beaten in the ward.

Years after his death, his theories about hand washing were proven correct. Today he’s known as “the savior of mothers” because he first proved hand washing saved lives by implementing it in the birthing ward, where 1 in 4 women died at the hospital during birth. This was because doctors would handle cadavers and then immediately attend to birthing mothers, infecting them. After hand washing was implemented, the rate of death for birthing mothers dropped to less than 5%.

itscomplicatedwcarbs , wellcomecollection Report

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Heather Resatz 1 year ago

What a hero!! If karma is a thing then this guy has come back as something wonderful .. perhaps my beloved doggo!!

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online There was a shunned Japanese politician who had spent a lot of his town's budget on building a tsunami wall that was built higher than any tsunami ever recorded in the area. Almost all people in that town cursed him for wasting their money until his death.. Then came the big 2011 triple disaster in Japan. No one from the town died thanks to the barrier which withheld the biggest tsunami to ever hit.

gtr06 , Ray Bilcliff Report

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Nonesuch 1 year ago

When building a wall actually made sense

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Sophie Scholl was a German student and anti-[war] political activist. She was born on May 9, 1921, in Forchtenberg, Germany. In 1942, Sophie and her brother Hans co-founded the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group that opposed the regime. The group distributed leaflets calling for passive resistance to the government and urging Germans to rise up against the regime.

On February 18, 1943, Sophie and Hans were arrested by the Gestapo while distributing leaflets at the University of Munich. They were interrogated and sentenced to death by the People's Court on February 22, 1943. On the same day, Sophie, Hans, and their friend Christoph Probst were executed by guillotine.

Sophie's final words were "Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?" Her courage and commitment to justice have since inspired countless people around the world.

hostilecircus , Figurator Report

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A gay cat man (he/him&amp;Tré/Trè) 1 year ago

why is war in brackets?

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online The Idaho cult Mom, Lori Vallow's husband, Charles. Not only did he know she was going to kill him but he also knew the kids were in danger and begged the police to address the fact that she was clearly not mentally stable. He finally got the police to require a mental health exam for her but there's audio of the police officers telling her how to pass it and treating her like a victim of her husband. The audio of him talking to the police is really depressing... guy is just begging them for help and they basically patted him on the head.

He was right and now he's dead and so are those poor kids. Really depressing case.

littleirishpixie , kat wilcox Report

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tabithapaquette98 1 year ago

That is so sad! They should have listened to him!

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Dr. Li was widely regarded in China as a heroic truth-teller. He had been punished by the authorities for trying to warn others about the virus, and then, in a terrible turn, had become severely sickened by it. Weeks later, he would become China’s most famous fatality of the emerging pandemic. He was 34. -The New York Times about COVID-19

ChocolateOrnery3260 , Karolina Grabowska Report

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Michelle C 1 year ago

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online John O'Neill, headed the investigation of the attack on the USS Cole. Warned FBI about Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. Was basically told to shut up. Left the FBI to head security at the World Trade Center because he knew there would be another attack there eventually after the first car bombing in the parking ramp.

He died on 911.

MNConcerto , Pixabay Report

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Keller Worthen 1 year ago

I'm literally at the WTC memorial right now it's so sad

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Martha Mitchell. Blew the whistle on Watergate only to be gaslit and accused of being a mentally unstable alcoholic by her husband, political cronies, and even her own kids.

RumBunBun , Collection - Carol Highsmith, Library of Congress Collection Report

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Panda Kicki 1 year ago

I never heard of her. Poor woman, she was brave, kidnapped and abused by her husbands goons.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online The poor Kurdish girl in Iran who was killed because she chose not to wear her hijab the "right" way.

imgrandojjo , Gül Işık Report

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232points

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago

Mahsa Amini. Arrested by the “ morality police” because some of her hair was showing from under her hijab. They denied beating her, and lied that she died from a heart attack. She was 22, ffs. She died from the beating(s). She should never have been there. The point of the hijab is to cover the hair, because the sight of it would be too tempting for men. ANOTHER b******t law put in place to punish women because goddamned MEN just can’t man up and control themselves. Bastards.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Bob Ebeling. Him and 4 other engineers told NASA to delay the Challenger mission.

Most of us know what happened on January 28th 1986.

Bunnuh77 , Chad Davis Report

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228points

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tabithapaquette98 1 year ago

I live in Cape Canaveral and I will never forget that day. For Florida, it was very cold. I didn't have to go to school that day because I had a dentist appointment. It was horrible!

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Nicole Brown Simpson. She told her friends and the police that OJ would kill her and get away with it.

TheSocialABALady , Brett Sayles Report

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210points

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago (edited)

F*****g LISTEN to us when we tell you things like this! It’s in your head if you don’t and we end up murdered. Hope the guilt just eats you up inside, a******s.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Caruana Galizia
The journalist who broke the story about the Panama papers.

skydvr44 , Continentaleurope Report

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207points

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Tim Nicebutdim 1 year ago

She was more than the Panama papers, she was trying to expose how rotten the Maltese politicians were/are. The EU always seems to turn a blind eye to it to. The makeshift monument to her in Valletta catches you unaware when stumble across it but you know damn well who it's for. Cowardly ****s.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Tesla. He died single in a hotel in NYC. He said all this life he had been working to improve society and people, but was always laughed at. I guess with him now famous, he is laughing last.

dsvoboda080182 , GDJ Report

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183points

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Brenda 1 year ago

Tesla had many ideas stolen simply because he didn't patent them. Edison was a true ba$tard, not just to Tesla either

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Sergei Magnitsky, whistleblower of corruption in the Russian government including human rights violations and strong opponent of Vladimir Putin. While in prison he died one week before his court date to testify from what was originally deemed malnourishment and an untreated heart condition with medical neglect. An investigation later found that he had been severely assaulted shortly before his death.

NsaAgent25 , Darya Sannikova Report

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176points

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David H 1 year ago

Russia has a history of whisterblowers and journalists critial of the leadership dying under mysterious circumstances. Sometimes even suicide by 10 bullets to the back of the head before jumping off buildings.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Marie Curie

To quote the Fact Sphere from Portal 2: “Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.”

And the follow up on the Portal wiki: Marie Curie technically only discovered dying of radioactivity.

buttercupgirl16 , Unknown author Report

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James 1 year ago

Incoming Poles.... Marie Skłodowska–Curie

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Karen Silkwood. From Wikipedia:

>Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility.

>After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission about her concerns, she was found to have plutonium contamination on her body and in her home. While driving to meet with a New York Times journalist and an official of her union's national office, she died in a car crash under unclear circumstances.

[Link to Wikipedia entry on Karen Silkwood.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood)

sucrose_97 , Chokniti Khongchum Report

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145points

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Nonesuch 1 year ago (edited)

Silkwood, movie starring Meryl Streep and Cher. Great film

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Scientists Executed by the Catholic Church

1. Hypatia
Hypatia was a pagan philosopher in late 4th century Alexandria. She appears to have been a lecturer in Platonic thought, a practicing scientist, and the author of several mathematical treatises. She was killed by a Christian mob in the year 415.

2. Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon (1220-1292) was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who is was a talented natural scientist and is considered one of the pioneers of the "scientific method" and was noted for his use of empirical observation. His greatest work was the Opus Major, which contains treatments of mathematics, optics, alchemy, and astronomy, including theories on the positions and sizes of the celestial bodies. Bacon appears to have been imprisoned by the ecclesiastical authorities sometime around 1279 and may have died in captivity.

3. Pietro d' Abano
Pietro d' Abano (1257-1316) was an Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine. He was a noted author whose most famous work was Conciliator Differentiarum, quæ inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur, an exploration on the relationship between contemporary medical theories and Aristotelian natural philosophy. He was arrested by the Inquisition and died in prison around 1316. He was condemned posthumously and his bones burned.

4. Cecco d' Ascoli
Cecco d' Ascoli (1257-1327) was an Italian encyclopaedist, physician, and scholar specializing in mathematics and astronomy. He was a professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna and was such a noted astronomer that there is a crater on the moon named after him. He is famous for his feud with the poet Dante. He was eventually tried for heresy and burned at the stake in Florence, the first university professor to be condemned to death by the Inquisition.

5. Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus (1509-1553), usually known simply as Servetus, was a Spanish doctor, theologian, mapmaker, and Humanist scholar. His expertise spanned many areas; he wrote treatises in mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence and poetry. In 1553 he was tried and sentenced to death in Vienna by the Inquisition, though it would ultimately be the Calvinists who put him to death in Geneva later that year.

6. Girolamo Cardano
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was a Renaissance polymath whose talents ranged from mathematics to medicine, biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, philosophy, and linguistics. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest user of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the west. He wrote over 200 scientific treatises.He was arrested and condemned by the Inquisition and spent several years imprisoned, though he was eventually released and rehabilitated by Pope Gregory XIII. He is famous for his contributions to algebra and made the first systematic use of negative numbers.

7. Giordano Bruno
Bruno is among the most famous scientists ever to run afoul of the Inquisition. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a Dominican friar, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He is most remembered for his cosmological theories. After seven years of trials in Rome, he was condemned and burned at the stake in 1600.

8. Lucilio Vanini
Philosopher and physician Lucilio Vanini (1585-1616) was a Carmelite and noted late Renaissance scholar. He was a libertine, political opponent of the popes, and known as an early proponent of some form of evolution from primates. He once left the Church for Anglicanism but later returned to the faith. He went through a period of itinerant wandering, where he seemed to always get in trouble with the authorities. He eventually adopted a false identity and died under circumstances that are still uncertain in 1619, executed for blasphemy and heresy by the authorities in Toulouse. He was strangled, had his tongue removed, and his body burned.

9. Tommaso Campanella
The Dominican friar Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was an Italian astrologer, philosopher, and poet. Early in his clerical career he became disenchanted with Aristotelian thought and became a proponent of the new empiricism. He was briefly imprisoned by the Inquisition for engaging in wild astrological speculation. He was released but was apprehended in Calabria, tortured, and spent twenty-six years in prison. He was later released to be part of the court of Pope Urban VIII and had some remote involvement in the Galileo affair. Despite his age, he again got in trouble and had to go into exile to the court of Louis XIII of France, where he died in 1639.

10. Kazimierz Lyszczynsk
Kazimierz Lyszczynsk (1634-1689) is different than the rest of the people we have examined in that he did not have a reputation as a scientist. He was a Polish soldier and nobleman, but also an amateur scholar and philosopher. Lyszczynsk was educated by the Jesuits but later became an opponent of the Society, whom he later opposed as a judge in several cases against the Jesuits concerning ownership of estates. He was arrested and charged with atheism and blasphemy based on an allegedly atheist manuscript he had written entitled "On the Non-Existence of God." He was condemned and beheaded in 1689 after having his tongue tore out and hands burned.

apeelvis , Julius Kronberg Report

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116points

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago (edited)

Yep. Religion has always wrongfully punished and murdered people who were right when the church was wrong. So the b******t the evangelicals are pulling today is just the same old same old. You see, when you deny and fight against science and learning and moving forward, you end up repeating the same dead wrong b******t, making the same mistakes, and provoking the same pointless and unnecessary violence, over and over. We need to work on breaking that destructive cycle, once and for all.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online That guy who got crushed to death with rocks in the Salem trials. Giles Corey, I believe.

IvyHav3n , Joy Marino Report

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113points

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Mad Dragon 1 year ago (edited)

He was accused of witchcraft and refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, even as heavier and heavier stones were placed upon his chest to try to torture a plea out of him. After three days, he died from the torture, but because he never entered a plea his estate was passed to his sons-in-law rather than seized by the government.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Bud Dwyer. He was a politician in Pennsylvania in the 1980s and he was accused of accepting bribes. He denied it but he and his family were receiving tons of hate from people to the point in which he called for a public announcement with news cameras and such.

He took a gun out of an envelope and put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Local news outlets now had video of a politician killing himself.

Years later it was learned that he *really didn’t* accept bribes.

vidgmchtr , Caleb Oquendo Report

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100points

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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago

... excuse me. Ik idk much about the past but what the FÚCK

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Not exactly killed directly, but still punished severely: Galileo.

Killed: Socrates

dodexahedron , CherryX Report

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84points

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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 1 year ago

Now, to be fair, the Catholic Church recently apologized to Galileo, and admitted he was right. So we're all good now, yes?

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Dr David Kelly, exposed the lies about WMDs then “[unalived himself]”. It was just a coincidence that the government refused to open an enquiry into his death, who needs to investigate a “self-unaliving”

PassionOutrageous979 , Pixabay Report

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A gay cat man (he/him&amp;Tré/Trè) 1 year ago

Suicide. BP, just stop with this b******t censorship

137points

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Alberto Nisman

He was a prosecutor investigating the President of Argentina at the time, Cristina Fernandez de Kirshner. Wound up doing the ol' Epstein and [ended his life]. In the waste basket next to where he was found, there was a draft for an arrest warrant for the president.

MongooseProXC , Sora Shimazaki Report

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71points

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ConstantlyJon 1 year ago (edited)

The ol' Epstein??? yeesh. Way to make someone ending their life sound even worse than it already does.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Obviously Oscar Wilde, "Either those curtains go or I do."

gildorratner , janeb13 Report

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Con O Cuinn 1 year ago

And we're at the point where the current title no longer makes sense. "25 Truth Advocates Who Passed Away Before Getting Recognition, As Shared Online"

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online heyitsEnricoPallazzo said:

Pat Tillman

who519 responded:

One of the greatest tragedies of the last 20 years. If he had survived he would have been an incredible anti-war voice and potentially a masterful politician. The dude was smart as hell, tough as hell and compassionate as hell. Not many people fit that mold on this Earth.

Edit: If you haven't read "Where Men Win Glory" by Krakauer it is a great look into this imperfect hero's life and the mythos that has drawn young brave men into war for millennia.

TrooperJohn added:

Which is exactly why he was eliminated.

A young, white, handsome pro athlete turned military hero coming back home to tell Americans the entire war was a big lie? There's no way that would have been allowed.

heyitsEnricoPallazzo , Pixabay Report

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45points

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Yoyo 1 year ago

Omg BP, do we have to google everything ourselves?? This doesn't even mention what he did!!

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What do you think ?

ConstantlyJon 1 year ago

Yeah this might be one of the worst threads I've read on here. Far too many conspiracy theories. If we downvote them into oblivion, can they go away? Do better, BP.

25points

Kyra Heiker 1 year ago

The quality of this site is deteriorating rapidly, what a terrible article.

17points

Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

Actually the stuff written in the comment section is more interesting. So much so, I usually read the comments first to save time.

Got hacked lol 1 year ago

I have one. The inventer of the printer: Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany around 1400 to a middle-class family. He was an apprentice to a goldsmith and learned various skills such as gemstone-polishing and mirror making . He was exiled from Mainz due to political unrest and moved to Strasbourg where he experimented with printing1. He spent about 20 years developing his printing press which used serial standardized individual parts to produce books faster and cheaper . He printed about 180 copies of the Bible known as the Gutenberg Bible which is considered one of the most valuable books in the world . He died in 1468 in debt and without much recognition for his invention

BenMaharaj 1 year ago

A lot of these do not at all fit in the category. They could’ve called it tragedies instead. Who and what was Marie Curie warning and why wasn’t she believed? She died from her research but the doesn’t make her a tragic whistleblower. The guys who warned NASA were still alive when they were vindicated. I could go on.

2points

Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 year ago

Where is the uncovered truth part of the story?

1point

Theresa Billson-Stanworth 1 year ago

How about for #9 we respect the young lady enough to name her. Her name was Mahsa Amini.

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Cydney Golden 1 year ago

Alan Turing...prosecuted for being gay despite his enormous contribution to the Allies war efforts in WW2. Committed suicide.

Bill Marsano 1 year ago

You people call yourselves writers and editors, yet you perpetuate your 'unalive' nonsense.

zena bena 1 year ago

I think all these whistleblowers did it for nothing because if people had learned anything from it it still wouldn't be happening but it does where people get warned of things and they don't listen and tragedy happens so why bother just look at the latest incident with that Titan going down to the Titanic Ward and Ward it was a good to do that but the guy gets fired and nobody listens

Just call me K.K 1 year ago

Pure as the driven snow

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