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A lot of things that we take for granted were not really received with open arms when they were suggested. Even worse, many scientists, inventors, or thinkers, whom we now revere as visionaries, were actually mocked, discredited, and even punished just for their ideas. 

So one netizen wanted to hear about historical figures that were unfairly vilified, only to be vindicated later. From being imprisoned for suggesting that doctors wash their hands, to excommunication over saying the Earth actually orbits the Sun, here are the most interesting examples gathered by the internet. 

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Ignaz Semmelweis. The world didn’t know about germs yet, but he saw that way fewer women were dying from childbirth when midwives attended the births than when doctors did (doctors were coming from autopsies and wrecking women’s s**t). Ignaz suggested they start washing their hands, and people lost their f*****g minds. Doctors ridiculed him and everyone hated him. He had a “nervous breakdown,” was committed to an insane asylum, beaten by the guards, and died from a gangrenous wound as a result of the beating.

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He didn't discover it, he was told by midwives over and over and over until he looked into it.

Midwives at the hospital observed that when doctors delivered babies, mothers were at a higher risk. Any housewife knew that food would spoil faster if handled with dirty hands and they always used vinegar solutions to clean their hands, tools, and surfaces. Any housewife would do this and midwives did it because mothers and their babies are more important than pumpkin preserves. Only doctors never washed their grubby hands while it was a deeply ingrained habit in most midwives.

Semmelweis listened to women. No wonder they locked him away.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a gold standard hand hygiene auditor and it is still hard to get doctors to comply

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Sinéad O'Connor. Was villified when she ripped up a picture of the Pope on SNL for child abuse and criticizing the Catholic Church.

Over the following decades we realized how devastatingly right she was about the whole thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, she didn't explain her reasoning until much later. When she did it, all she said was "Fight the real enemy." And her history of being abused as a child wasn't known in America, and the child abuse scandals within the Church hadn't come to light yet. In retrospect, it makes sense as a protest, but at the time it was completely out of the blue.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Kotaku Wamura, mayor of a town in Japan who spent decades of taxpayer money developing a seawall to defend against tsunamis. During his whole career he was ridiculed for the expenditure and he died before it ever payed off. Then in 2011 it saved the whole town. 

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

because Japan has never experienced tsunamis ! I’m being ironic, but it’s like you’re telling me that someone in Los Angeles is being mocked for worrying about earthquakes

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While more contemporary thinkers and scientists might face a bit of ridicule for novel ideas, the scientific minds of the past risked a lot worse. Both Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei were threatened by the Catholic church for daring to suggest that, in fact, the Earth was not the center of the universe. Now they have both been completely vindicated by the scientific community. 

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Ironically, this “I told you so” story is perhaps the reason why we still know them today. As you can imagine, there were not really that many astronomers in 15th-century Europe. Both Galileo and Copernicus were brought back into more mainstream discussions by 19th-century Protestant writers, who used their stories as examples of the suppressive nature of the Catholic church. 
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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Marie Tharp, who drew a map that would help validate the theory of plate tectonics in 1953. Her colleague dismissed it as “girl talk” for over a year. But when the evidence seemed to point to the map being correct, he published the map under his own name and Tharp’s contribution was ignored by both Columbia University (where she worked) and the greater geological community.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Dominique Moceanu - Dominque came forward in 2008 revealing abuse in USA gymnastics before the 2016 sexual abuse scandal. She was accused of being bitter, lying, and seeking attention. She was blacklisted by gymnastics coaches and received threatening e-mails accusing her of basically being a traitor. John Geddert was one of the USA National Team coaches who sent her the following e-mail in 2008: "Dom, Although I am waiting to see the final product, initial quotes and coverage from your Brian Gumble interview have me wondering how you can stab this sport in the back..."John Geddert would later commit s*icide following federal charges of child exploitation and child trafficking of his former gymnasts.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Jimmy Carter. He was right about promoting energy independence and transitioning from usage away from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy (and he was a former nuclear engineer as well). His stance back in the '70s holds up extremely well, especially in this day and age.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine had we listened to him then. Like seriously this is a moment where we should use time travel

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More tragically, it was not until the 19th century that people started to realize just how much disease and infections are carried by dirty hands. Joseph Lister, a British surgeon was the first to recommend that doctors do the bare minimum of hygiene, like washing their hands and maybe wearing gloves when interacting with a corpse. His critics mocked his ideas and “The Lancet,” the leading medical journal of the time, even issued warnings against his ideas. 
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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Stella Liebeck - The woman who sued McDonald's after being burned by hot coffee. Was vilified as the poster child for frivolous lawsuits. After she died pictures of her burns were published and they are graphic.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She offered to settle with McDonalds for $20,000 for medical costs but McDonald's refused.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist was persecuted and prosecuted for his homosexuality, which was considered illegal at the time. Turing's work in breaking the Enigma code during World War II was pivotal in Allied victory. He is now celebrated for his contributions to computing and artificial intelligence.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was chemically castrated, committed suicide a year later, and he wasn't granted pardon until 2013. Let's not forget the little details. One might also want to look until what year homosexuality was prosecuted in the UK.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Patricia Stallings comes to mind.

Convicted of poisoning her first child, gave birth in prison (kid got taken away) and the kid also dies. Instead of poisoning it was now found it was a genetic defect that had similar effects as poisoning with antifreeze.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Similar case here in Oz https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australia-kathleen-folbigg-pardoned-children-natural-causes-rcna87663

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We should all, collectively, thank a number of other medical thinkers of the time who went against the grain and decided to give Joseph Lister’s ideas a shot. Marcus Beck, a consultant surgeon at University College Hospital, made sure to include his ideas in newer editions of medical textbooks.
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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Stanislav Petrov. More people need to know his name, he literally, like quite literally saved the world.

Saved the world from nuclear ruin, simply because he was stubborn and refused to believe the computing error. He went against his position orders, and was consequently sacked by the USSR and lived an isolated life. Not necessarily vilified by all, but vilified by the USSR and ignored by the west. Put some respect on his name.

And he didn't even win a Nobel peace prize, died in 2017. Recommend watching 'Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world'.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We need at least 5 of them right now! I hope I'm exaggerating but...

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Monica Lewinsky. She was a 20-y-o White House intern who got taken advantage of. Then the media crucified her for it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. No one is saying she did everything right. Not even her. She made some very dumb choices. But who hasn't when they were in their early 20s? Picture the stupidest thing you did at that age. Imagine the entire world hearing about it, being made fun of by everyone, your name becoming a synonym with that mistake and it having an effect on literally every day after that. I honestly don't understand how she even managed to survive and I admire the work she's done since and her sense of humour so much. Also - Linda Tripp deserves to rot in hell.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Courtney Love. I’m referring specifically to the fact that she called out Harvey Weinstein publicly long before what we know now, and everyone kind of just dismissed her.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was right, but when you act like a lunatic 95% of the time, it's hard to know when to take you seriously the 5% of the time. And for the record, she had a lot of trauma and I understand why she was the way she was.

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It doesn't take a genius to realize that a surgeon with clean hands will leave more patients alive. So if you ever think about how romantic it would be to travel to the past, just remember, your doctor would have probably handled a corpse, stitched a wound, eaten lunch, delivered a baby, and who knows what else, before they get around to assisting you. 
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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Dixie Chicks. They were against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and publicly said so. They were effectively cancelled by the right as a result. Turns out they were correct, there were no weapons of mass destruction. The invasion was concocted so Bush could be seen as striking back for 9/11, which won him re-election in 2004.

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Jacques Chirac French president, and subsequently everything French was vilified and mocked for not wanting to attack Irak based on the American government lies. Remember freedom fries? As a French person living in the US, I do.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Doctor Clair Cameron Patterson not only discovered the true age of the Earth with his research in Lead-dating, but during this process he accidentally discovered the dangers of lead contamination. Then he went “wait, we’re putting this s**t in gasoline, cans, paint, etc.” He then began campaigning against lead in everyday products. In particular, he targeted the gasoline industry. *You can imagine how that went in the courtroom*. He was vilified, excluded, and slandered against but kept pushing for lead to be removed from gasoline. Took decades, but obviously lead was removed from gasoline almost entirely by 1990

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What pisses me off is that, being born in 1960, I was breathing lead-laced air for 30 years before leaded gas went off the market. My mother had breathed it for 70 years at the point. That means I, as well as anyone who was born before 1990—and babies born to anyone born before then—-have traces of lead in my lungs, not just from air I breathed directly, but from the air my mother breathed while I was in her womb. A heavy metal forced on me from even before I took my very first independent breath, totally without my consent. Even worse, it’s not the only harmful substance that has been put in us without our consent. Hell, without our even being made aware of it. Now we have traces of goddamned plastics in us. FFS. We should ALL be extremely pissed off about this, and be doing something, anything—-everything—-to end production of such materials, and prosecute those responsible for continuing to produce them after being made aware of the risks, to get this non-consensual abuse to stop. You’d do it if someone was feeding you poison-laced food every day. Well, a load of companies are poisoning ALL of us everyday on a massive scale. They should be punished as well.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Rose McGowan for calling out Harvey Weinstein.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seems many women called out Weinstein & were ignored.

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Unfortunately, most of the examples here never got to experience vindication and would probably be surprised by just how important their work really was. Stephen Hawking, in “A Brief History of Time,” wrote that Galileo Galilei could be considered one of the most important contributors to modern science of all time. So if you want to commemorate other great minds that were ignored in their time, check out Bored Panda’s other article on “crazy” people who ended up being right all along. 

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Lindy Chamberlain

The 'A Dingo Killed My Baby' lady.

She was vilifed, mocked and ridiculed across the world.

She then spent three years in prison, before it turned out she was actually telling the truth the whole time, and a dingo did, in fact kill her baby.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MargyB did not deserved all the downvotes, I think she was referring to the episode from Seinfeld when Elaine, who was at a party, is saying to a lady who was keep looking for her "baby" (who was her fiancee) , "A dingo eat your baby". Despite the sad story behind this, Elaine's reaction was hilarious.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Barry Marshall (and also Robin Warren his co-researcher). Forever, the cause of peptic ulcers was believed to be stress, spicy food and too much acid production. They believed it was actually of bacterial origin. No one believed them, they were ridiculed because the belief was that bacteria couldn't survive in the acidic environment of the stomach. Not until Barry took a cocktail of H. pylori bacteria, which caused him to have massive inflammation of the stomach which was found to be colonized with the bacteria, but a course of antibiotics later and it was gone. One Nobel prize later and now the treatment of peptic ulcers is turned on its head and instead of months or years of discomfort it can often be sorted with a week or two course of anti-biotics. 

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Pearl Jam war with Ticket master.

In 1994, American rock band Pearl Jam filed a complaint with the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that Ticketmaster has a "virtually absolute monopoly on the distribution of tickets to concerts" and attempted to book its tour only at venues that did not use Ticketmaster. However, no action was taken on Ticketmaster.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them The Deep-sea exploration community warning OceanGate against ocean tourism. OceanGate basically told them to mind their business.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everybody knew that. It was just certain individuals that chose to not listen to facts.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them John Snow. He tried to remove the handle of a water pump in London that was drawing its water downstream from a sewage pipe People who drew water from the pump caught cholera.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Charles Darwin. There’s a whole book on how scared he was to publish his work because he knew he’d be hated for it. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... and people still refuse to accept proven knowledge because an old fairy tale tells them a different story. Some dude even calculated the exact date of creation from biblical sources and concluded it to having happened in October, 4004 BC or so.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them John Yudkin was a food scientist who tried hard to push the idea that sugar caused heart disease and obesity amongst other conditions. He suggested a low carb diet for weight loss in 1958. The sugar industry paid scientists like Ansel Keys and D. Mark Hegsted to downplay this connection and suggest that dietary fat caused obesity and heart disease. Massive lobbying helped pro sugar scientists to become advisors to government and officially suggest a low fat diet to prevent heart disease. Taking fat out of food makes it taste bad, so what do they add? More sugar, causing the food to be unhealthier. The demonising of fat lasted well into the 2000's and often still persists to this day.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The demonising of carbohydrates isn't really better. The length of the chain molecules has a major effect on the speed of absorption, and therefore, not all carbohydrates, even not all sugars, are the same. Just like fats. Some counter inflammations, some push them. The same? In regard to nutritious energy, for sure. For any else? No.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them George Carlin. People used to think he was a hippy spouting off idealistic governmental propaganda. The man was a prophet.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

George Carlin saw through all the BS our politicians and society lay on us and he wasn't afraid to call it out. He was the kid who said the emperor had no clothes on and he was right on with all his assessments of what is wrong in life today. RIP George. We miss the hell out of you.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Richard Jewell was blasted as being the Atlanta Olympic Bomber when he was really just a guy helping people out down there.

He deserved better.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His quick thinking and correct actions really did save lives -- he was the right man in the right place, and should have been hailed as a hero.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Nicolaus Copernicus, theorized that the planets actually circled the sun instead of the other way around. The church initially accepted heliocentricacy but banned his views in 1600s.

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I wonder how far would the science be by now if religion was not slowing the scientific progress for centuries.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Corey Feldman exposing all the pedos in Hollywood.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But has he? He's talked about them for years but ever actually named names.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them I would say the UN Chief Inspector, Hans Blix, who said in a 2003 report that the UN investigation team had found no evidence of WMD in Iraq. Completely torn apart by the American government, public, and press. And yet… no WMD were ever found in Iraq.

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I have always been an analytical person. I look at the evidence and try to figure out what’s really going on. Couple that with being a classic Doubting Thomas, and you have a lifetime of not taking the majority of stuff I’m told at face value and just finding out for myself (employers f*****g hate this, they’d prefer mindless automatons who take orders without question). So, when the WMD b******t came out, I took out my magnifying glass and looked at the published surveillance plane photos that were supposed to show WMDs. Couldn’t see ANYTHING that resembled any part of a missile. Nothing. I knew we were being gaslit into believing something that was patently untrue. But people told me I was wrong, although when I challenged them to show me the missiles in those pictures, they couldn’t find them either.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Joseph Lister. One of the first doctors to publicly endorse germ theory and recommend disinfection. At the time surgeons would literally move from an amputation, to an autopsy, to the delivery room using the same tools often without even cleaning the gore from their hands and clothes. When Lister recommended comprehensive disinfection between procedures nearly the whole British medical community laughed at him. He spent years as a pariah gathering data from his own practice until he could finally prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that his methods reduced post-op infection by a staggering rate. Now he's known as "The father of modern surgery."

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Stanley Prusiner. Everyone who was anyone in science knew that proteins couldn't be an infectious agent. They weren't even alive! He suffered so much mockery and scepticism... until the mad cow disease, and kuru etc, were found to be precisely what he had described.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them The journalists who maintained Lance Armstrong was doping when he was winning the Tour de France. I remember they were mocked because they admittedly went to extremes hunting for evidence. I remember reports of them sifting through Armstrong's trash.

Lance Armstrong was a great story, a testicular cancer survivor who beat the disease and went on to set the record for most Tour de France victories (was it 7?). He was untouchable. Anyone contesting he was cheating was shamed. I remember the journalists investigating him were mostly French, so they were dismissed because they were sour that an American was breaking the Tour de France records. I remember other Tour winners such as Greg Le Mond and Floyd Landis also contesting that Armstrong was cheating, and both being silenced/shamed. Landis had tested positive himself for doping so he wasn't considered a reliable source. I remember with Le Mond they dug into his history and brought up child abuse he suffered as a result of him making claims against Armstrong.

Turns out they were all right.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TBF, French journalists have a long history of hinting that foreign cyclists are cheating in the Tour, and when taken further, many times it's proven inconclusive or false. So not surprised nobody believed them.

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Hippies in the 70’s and black people at the time aswell were HUGE victims of the war on drugs and most of the drugs were proven to be vilified just so Nixon could arrest X people for any plant he wanted.

And let’s not forget heroin and other destructive and addictive drugs were funneled into minority areas via the GOV.

An actual quote from “John Ehrlichman” where he essentially “confessed”

“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

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Anita Hill. I called my father as I was upset no one believed her. I knew what I was experiencing in the work place. She is my hero. Because of her the corporate company I worked for started promoting women into management roles. In my career as I am now retired, I was the first woman manager in four different locations, all different corporations. I didn't have a degree but had talent in my field. I attended a state conference where other managers in my field attended. I was the only women and didn't realize it til the next year's conference when another women entered the room. I was in that room because of my talent and until someone opened that door I couldn't go in. Anita unlocked that door.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anita Hill was completely believable. Clarence Thomas should never have been confirmed.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Remember when people thought Marie Curie's work was 'too dangerous'? Now we can't imagine medicine and technology without her discoveries.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marie Curie SKLODOWSKA, please! It makes me so sad for her and Polish people that her name got erased over time. She was so proud to be Polish, she deserves to be recognized as such.

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Martha Mitchell, after whom the Martha Mitchell Effect is named. Watergate whistleblower. She was the wife of the US AG at the time, John Mitchell. Despite being known privately to suffer from a fair bit of social anxiety, she was nevertheless outspoken and was seen as a little eccentric. This ended up being used against her by, among other people, her own husband (who at one point had her *kidnapped* in the middle of a phone call to a reporter over this), to thoroughly publicly discredit, mock, and belittle her when she blew the whistle on Watergate - though she initially believed her husband was an innocent fall guy. Nixon actually *blamed her* for Watergate, saying she was a distraction to AG Mitchell and that without her, Watergate never even would have happened! Which is just wild. Aside from her son, her family abandoned her until full details of Watergate became more widely publicly known and one of the people involved in the kidnapping admitted it had happened. The Martha Michell Effect is when a patient's true, but extreme claims are either incorrectly or maliciously dismissed as delusions by a medical (especially psychiatric) professional..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This effect didn’t just start with Martha Mitchell. It’s even going on for millennia—-if the person making the claims is a woman. Claiming a woman is crazy and putting her away in an institution—-especially if she’s 100% right—-has always been a method for male criminal m***********s of all classes to discredit her claims, cover up their nefarious activities, and get away with their dirty dealings.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Dr. John Leal, the first man to chlorinate drinking water to kill germs. Only, chlorine is a deadly poison, so he did so secretly for a couple months at first. The judge was incredulous that a man would poison the water supply from which his own son drank, but Leal said that it was the safest water in the world, and he was right. Suitably diluted, the chlorine does no notable damage to humans worlds of hurt to bacteria.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Surely better than germ infested sewage, but I prefer the approach of not poisoning drinking water it in the first place (aka ministering to the disease) rather than treating it with yet another additive (aka trating the symptoms).

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Mitt Romney during his presidential run said Putin was the biggest threat.

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Dr. Joseph Goldberger. He was the doctor that discovered the cause of the Pellagra epidemic that was sweeping the southern USA. He linked it to a bad diet, specifically a corn heavy diet. Cornmeal and grits were a southern staple, and and incredibly cheap way to feed orphans, prisoners, and the poor. Pellagra is caused by a lack of vitamin B3, aka niacin. Normally corn is high in niacin, but that niacin is locked up and unavailable to the human digestive system unless the corn is treated, aka "softened", typically with lye. In the early 1900's, manufactures switched to a different process that eliminated this treatment with lye. Corn was no longer softened. Then people, especially the poor, prisoners and orphans started dying of pellagra. Some orphanages and prisons had a death rate of over 40%. Tens of thousands were dying annually. Through a series of experiments, Goldberger proved that it was a corn-heavy diet that caused pellagra. He cured it in 2 institutions just by adding vegetables to their diet. He also caused it in a 14 prisoner "volunteers". But, and this is the important part: He was Jewish, and he was trying to tell Southerners they they were doing something wrong. So he was ridiculed and ignored. And pellagra continued to kill tens of thousands in the USA, and sicken tens of thousands more, for decades. When Goldberger died in 1929 pellagra continued to kill tens of thousands annually, 15 years after he had found the cure. It would continue to kill thousands for another couple of decades until someone more acceptable, Conrad Elvehjem, confirmed Goldberger's work in the late 1930's. All because southerners didn't want a Jew telling then that they were doing something wrong. He was insulting their southern heritage, by god! PS: "Insulting their southern heritage" is not my words. It's the words of the southern politicians who pulled his funding and campaigned for his removal from the US Public Health Service.

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One of the lesser known ones is Hellen Keller. Her story of overcoming her disabilities as a young woman was often taught to children, but her adult life was largely excluded because of her "radical" ideas at the time which involved pushing for black rights, anti-lynching laws, early support of birth control, supporting liberal socialism, and she even co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also...a eugenicist. So, not all of her ideas were great.

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Nan Briton had an affair with US president Warren G. Harding in the early 1920s. Harding died of a heart attack in 1923, and Briton tried to sue for child support. She was ridiculed in court. In 2015, Ancestry.com did a DNA analysis on Harding's and Briton's descendants. Nan was telling the truth.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure let's just hand our privacy to the Feds! They now have 21 million peoples DNA!

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Edward Snowden was infamously branded a traitor by the US Government for leaking things like Prism, after the american people had long suspected the government had been spying on them for years since the days of Patriot Act.

He was just simply the confirmation of all of our suspicions.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like you said, he didn't do anything but remind us what we already knew since the Patriot Act.

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Patrice Lumumba. The United Nations labeled him as an unreasonable, unprincipled madman. In reality he just wanted his country’s independence from Belgium because they had been torturing and oppressing the natives there since the days of king Leopold.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back then, he was actually recognized in Poland, there were even streets named in his honor in several large cities.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them William H. Seward, arranged the purchase of the Alaska territory from Russia for $7 Million dollars. The media and politician's of the era termed it "Seward's Folly" “Seward’s icebox” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”

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Van Halen and the brown M&Ms.

A lot of people thought they were just being a******s when they had a clause in their contract that required a bowl of M&Ms to be filled but with all the brown ones removed.

This was actually their way to check if the people setting up the venue for lighting, pyro, electrical, etc, actually did all the work. If they had the bowl without brown ones, it meant the venue was trustworthy and safety precautions were followed. If there were any brown ones, it meant they cut corners somewhere and that meant lives at risk.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

B******t. Person responsible for food and catering is not the same person who sets lighting and electrical installation. I would be inspecting electric installation nad would be sure everything is OK, with absolutely no regard for M&Ms, sandwiches and other food stuff.

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Johnny Lyden when he said on the radio that Jimmy Saville was dodgy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lydon doesn’t really work for me. He alluded to some rumours, offered no details, and that was that. Sone imprecise innuendo in an solitary interview.

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them The "leave Britney alone" guy,  Chris Crocker.

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Yeah, I remember laughing at him as a clown but later felt guilty after her story came to light.

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Charles B McVay, the captain of the USS Indianapolis at the time it was sunk. Scapegoated and blamed for the tragedy because the Navy totally s**t the bed left and right and needed a fall guy. He was exonerated decades after taking his own life…

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45 People Who Were Right All Along But No One Believed Them Martin Luther King was hated in his own time and died with a negative favorability rating.

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At the time of his murder he was at a low point of his career. The Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington had been great successes. But he’d gone North to confront housing discrimination in Chicago only to gain minimal results against the very strong apparatus of Mayor Daley’s machine. Then he’d come out against the Vietnam War, for the sake of the Vietnamese as well as US draftees of all races, for which the other civil rights leaders distanced themselves from him. Advocating for Memphis garbage collectors should have been a fight he could have delegated, had things been going better. At any rate, the KKK had put a $100K bounty on him that they in no way could have paid, and a loser invested in a rifle, a scope and a room in a Memphis flophouse hoping to collect the money.

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Svante Arrhenius.
During his PhD research in the 1880's he theorized that crystalline salts dissolved in water to form pairs of charged ions. For example, sodium chloride (common table salt) dissolved in water to form positively charged sodium ions, and negatively charged chloride ions. His PhD dissertation didn't impress his professors, and he received low marks. Their reaction was something like "You think that salt dissolves in water to form ions of SODIUM?! A metal that reacts violently with water?! And chlorine GAS? Are you serious? GTFO!" He later received the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry for this groundbreaking work.

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Wrote an Econ paper in 2007 about the housing market crashing and was told the housing market never crashes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess your Econ professor never heard of the Great Depression?

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Lars Ulrich. Metallica's drummer. Lars was right. Digital music made it challenging for bands, small or big, to make a living. Top that off with predatory practices like merch cuts from venues.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Merch cuts have really hit the music news recently. Some bands wont sell their merch in the venue they are playing in.

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Georg Cantor, a 19th-century German mathematician. He was the mathematician who proved that the cardinality of the real numbers was uncountably infinite (rather than countably infinite like the natural numbers and the sets in bijection with the naturals), now a very commonly known fact even among undergraduates in mathematics. Essentially, the real numbers are a "greater" infinite than the natural numbers ({1,2,3,4,...}). Many mathematicians of the day rejected his proof and infinite set theories, notably of which included Henry Poincaré (who created the Poincaré conjecture, the only solved problem among the 7 Millenium Prize problems) and Leopold Kronecker (who the Kronecker-Delta is named after). Funnily enough, Cantor's legacy lives on to this day because his Set Theory ended up being the foundation for the vast majority of modern mathematics as we know it.

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the guy who came up with the theory of Pangaea and continental drift

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The Duke lacrosse team. They were proven innocent, yet only one reporter apologized for writing a story about their 'guilt'. The accused received a large amount of money for their troubles, but the coach had trouble finding work. ESPN did a 30 for 30 on the Duke lacrosse team.

The three players who were investigated for the crime ended up filing suit against Duke university, Duke settled for a undisclosed sum (rumored to be $60 million). Then the three players sued the City of Durham and the Police department. That lawsuit was settled after seven years for approximately $50,000. One of the players earned a law degree and is currently a lawyer who works with the Innocence Project. One of the players graduated from Duke and went on to earn an MBA. The third player graduated from Loyola. Nifong was removed from office, disbarred, and ended up serving one day in jail. The dancer who accused the players, Crystal Magnum is serving a prison sentence for second degree murder.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

''The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in Durham, North Carolina, United States in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were accused of rape.''

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Ted Kaczynski. He'd also be vilified today due to his brutal methods. But it's undeniable at this point that he predicted accurately the dystopia we now live in.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry, you're wrong. Terrorism is never a correct choice.

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