A photo of Dr. Semmelweiss
An article by Shreya Suri, "Why Doctors Rejected the Man Who Discovered That Handwashing Saves Lives," published on the Observer Voice website, discusses "Why Doctors Rejected the Man Who Discovered That Handwashing Saves Lives."
The article discusses the Semmelweis reflex, named after Ignaz Semmelweis, a doctor who discovered that hygiene could save the lives of many patients. His ideas were ahead of their time and were rejected.
"The phenomenon was named by author Robert Anton Wilson who used Semmelweis’s story as the paradigm case of how revolutionary ideas get rejected not because they’re wrong but because they threaten established worldviews," the article explains.
A Wikipedia article provides a citation. There is also a Wikipedia article on Semmelweiss.
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Hat tip: Nick Helweg-Larsen.
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