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The caduceus swoosh is a trademarked logo of North American Medical Corporation. IDD Therapy® Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. U.S. and world patents & patents pending. |
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TRUE INNOVATIONS ALWAYS
FACE ESTABLISHMENT SKEPTICISM |
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“An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by
gradually winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely
happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its
opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is
familiarized with the idea from the beginning.” 1
—Max Planck, known as the “Father of Modern Physics”2 |
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In the 1840s, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was appalled and
horrified at the incredibly high death rate of
apparently healthy women giving birth in hospitals. The
high rate became more disturbing in light of the fact
that survival rates for children born outside of
hospitals was higher than for those born within them.
In those days, the idea of germ transmission was not
commonly accepted. It was typical for physicians to
perform post-mortem examinations on patients who’d died
of terminal infectious diseases and then, without even
washing their hands or donning gloves, they’d proceed to
examine the living.
Dr. Semmelweis suspected the doctors may be carrying
pathological agents and transmitting infection. By 1847,
Semmelweis pioneered a technique of scrubbing his hands,
then dipping them in a chlorine solution before touching
any patient. After enacting his procedures, the death
rate of expectant mothers at Semmelweis’s clinic dropped
from over 12 percent to just over two percent.
The medical establishment of the day reacted by blocking
Dr. Semmelweis’s application for research funds to
implement his sanitation procedures hospital-wide. The
medical establishment proceeded to vilify, ostracize,
and finally have him discharged from his prestigious
position in maternity hospitals. Semmelweis eventually
suffered a complete nervous breakdown. It was not until
long after Semmelweis’s death that his sanitation
procedures became universally accepted.3 |
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Dr. Louis Pasteur4 and Dr. Joseph Lister5 had enormous difficulty in having the “germ theory of disease and antiseptic surgery” accepted because the leading physicians of the day adamantly opposed it. |
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Albert Einstein, the twentieth century’s most famous scientist, had to withstand the medical establishment’s tremendous efforts to disprove his theory of relativity. There actually was a publication controlled by his scientific opponents called One Hundred Against Einstein. He is said to have remarked: “If they were right, one would be enough.” 6 |
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REFERENCES:
1
Max
Planck
is
quoted
in
Why
People
Believe
Weird
Things:
Pseudoscience,
Superstition,
and
Other
Confusions
of Our
Time,
by
Michael
Shermer.
Holt
Paperbacks,
2002,
page 60.
2
Max
Planck
is
called
the
“father
of
modern
physics”
in
After
the
Victorians:
The
Decline
of
Britain
in the
World,
by A. N.
Wilson.
Palgrave
Macmillan,
2005,
page
174.
3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis
4
http://www3.telus.net/st_simons/cr9712.htm
5
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/Lister.html
6
http://www.sciencevalidatesbible.com/velikovsky-summary.html |
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