ADVERTISEMENT

People say a lot of stupid stuff. And we judge them for it. But every now and then, over time, enough evidence emerges to prove us all wrong and redeem even the wildest statements.

Interested in these cases, Redditor TheCheeryStranger recently asked other platform users, "What 'crazy' person in history was right the whole time?" and everyone immediately started sending in their answers.

From Ernest Hemingway talking about the FBI tailing him to Galileo Galilei being trialed by the Church for his heretic claim that the Earth revolves around the sun, here are some of the most interesting ones.

#1

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Clair Patterson-he was made out to be crazy by giant oil companies bc he tested ice cores in the Arctic and figured out that the amount of lead in the atmosphere, the water, and our bodies was extremely high and caused by leaded gasoline. He petitioned Congress for years to make it illegal to add lead to gasoline, but the corporations kept getting him shut down because they used lead as an anti-knock agent for internal combustion engines. Ironically, lead was causing everyone else to go crazy because it is shaped like a neurotransmitter and blocks receptors causing insanity, similarly to what mercury does, and many employees of the oil companies had gone mad. After decades of battling the oil companies, he finally got his way and lead was removed from gasoline. Since then, the amount of lead in the atmosphere and I’m living things has decreased dramatically. Clair Patterson… a f**king hero.

He also created the first truly “clean room.”

Sudden-Lettuce2317 Report

#2

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Sinead O’Connor - she was vilified for ripping up a photo of the pope to protest child abuse within the Catholic Church. Spoiler alert - the Catholic Church was covering up child abuse.

77kloklo77 Report

Add photo comments
POST
rostit avatar
Rost it
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dont think any reasonable people thought she was crazy. this has been known for years. the catholic church is one of the worst organizations in the world. They have killed more people over the years than any country.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#3

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Stanislav Petrov. Though we don't see him as crazy, I'm sure his crewmates thought he was. He directly disobeyed Soviet military protocols and prevented a nuclear war.

Rayshon1042 , wikipedia.org Report

Add photo comments
POST
elhulkova avatar
Romenriel
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the few real people that can say they literally saved the world.

View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#4

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Rose McGowan was completely ostracized and blacklisted for talking about Weinstein too early.

sagieday , wikipedia.org Report

#5

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Tesla. Edison is still credited with the lightbulb. His last words put it into perspective "All these years that I had spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humiliation"

Luke Keil , wikipedia.org Report

Add photo comments
POST
nickyoldfielddesciple avatar
stimpy avatar
robcrenshaw avatar
Dadolwch
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tesla is definitely underappreciated, though this post doesn't really do his accomplishments justice at all.

piercejeremy2 avatar
Jeremy Pierce
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Edison was a straight up criminal, but he had powerful friends so he is labeled an inventor. He bullied, strong armed, intimidated, stole, corporate espionage, stuff like that.

nikkisevven avatar
robynbowns avatar
Robyn Bowns
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing used in every aspect of everyday life in the 21st century would exist without him.

Load More Replies...
kona4me avatar
pj_jarvis avatar
Pamela Jarvis
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You would think that those bankrolling Edison would have a clue as to what was going on. Makes me mad and sad. A true humanitarian who suffered because of greed. Think how things would be now if we all benefitted from free electricity.

Load More Replies...
contact_213 avatar
APL
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The lightbulb was also separately invented by Joseph Swann.

zeroflight avatar
Zero
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And by several others such as William Sawyer and Albon Man. Electric light was first demonstrated in 1835 in the UK, before Edison was even born, but was pretty crude. After that it was a race by inventors around the world tried to figure out a safe, efficient way to make it usable. The Sawyer-Man duo and Swann both came up with really good designs and had a hand in shaping the light bulb industry, but it was Edison who brought it all together. He merged his company with an electric company that used the Sawyer-Man patent, and merged his UK interests with a company that used Swann's version. Then his team did what was really important, which was to make all of the other aspects, such as the ability to mass produce, the bulb base & screw, a good vacuum pump, etc. and to use the might of his companies to get it all out there. So we're back to that he was individually a crappy inventor but incredible businessman.

Load More Replies...
markmelton avatar
Mark Melton
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We know now that Thomas Edison was an immoral thief and liar. He stole ideas directly from the patent office and overwhelmed them with lawsuits. Edison was a pos.

colin_leamon avatar
Colin Leamon
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know the feeling. The fact no one has heard of me or believes a word I say stands as its own testimony - but there's always beer. Shame it can't kill the brain cells quick enough

elleo avatar
Elle O
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Should your name be Cassandra, as well? For (simplified) context, Cassandra was a woman that Apollo blessed with the gift of extremely accurate sight, then cursed her so no one would believe her or heed her advice.

Load More Replies...
martingibbs734 avatar
martin734
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, although he did a huge amount of extremely important work and made some amazing discoveries, he was still a bit of a fruit cake. For every act of absolute genius, there was often a moment of total lunacy and he was not above bending the truth for his own advantage sometimes. He and Edison were often as bad as each other.

mosheh_wolf avatar
Mosheh Wolf
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another false dichotomy. Tesla was a genius who had many of his inventions and ideas stolen by Edison. However, Tesla also had mental health issues. Edison's theft of Tesla's ideas made Tesla's mental health problem's worse, though.

xan_maranya avatar
Xan Maranya
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nikola Tesla accomplished far more than being among those inventing the light bulb in the late 1800's. He was a Serbian-American engineer and physicist who made dozens of breakthroughs in the use of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor, developed AC technology and was granted more than 30 patents for his inventions. Tesla's depth of understanding of energy science is reflected in this quote: "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

pommpeii avatar
Egg
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both tesla and Edison were terrible people

hecklbro000 avatar
Yukon Charlie
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Edison improved the light bulb to be economic and easily produced, making it far more practical. So while he didn't originate the idea, he in essence invented the first easily accessible light bulb that most people could afford.

rainer-v-b avatar
mongo
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ahh but he was impossible to live with. Crazy pigeon man living (and not paying) in hotels.

alicewiedrick avatar
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nikola Tesla deserves more recognition but all that credit went to Thomas Edison

jan2056625 avatar
JJ Moore
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I despise Edison for the way he treated this man. Absolutely love Tesla (the man/inventor, not the car).

dunnedan93 avatar
Dan
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Edison just made a cheaper and more efficient lightbulb

bobzilla2k avatar
Robert Miller
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if he was so crazy -why did the government seize all of his papers when he died and we still haven't seen them ?

mairlady avatar
Mairlady
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This poor guy was very lonely at the end of his life. He was given free rooming at a hotel, he was so poor! Rich Americans stole his inventions for their own greed, and Tesla only wanted to give free electricity to the world!

jnegraham avatar
Janet Graham
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He had a laboratory in Colorado Springs that is now a fantastic museum. Good Man!

ddufield avatar
Dana Dufield
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tessa worked for Edison and may have worked some on the light bulb but it was his work on the induction motor which made him famous. His avocation of AC current instead of Edison's DC is an even greater achievement.

3i7iws avatar
Paw Paw
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Edison , in his Menlo Park factory, practiced what we now call "Intellectual Property Rights". When any of his workers came up with an innovation, he made them sell their ideas to him, and he then patented them. He was a "genius" at screwing people. Because he had powerful people backing him, and no one could get patented by themselves.

zedmuk avatar
Zed Muk
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Edison is certainly not credited with the invention of the lightbulb in the UK since we had electric lighting in a house (the first electrically lit house in the World) before Edison made his.

wannabe_girl avatar
Susan De Nimes
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Joseph Swann invented the light bulb, 17 years before Edison had the idea.

phillipshepard avatar
Phillip Shepard
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tesla's greatest achievement was the development of AC. Edison and Henry Ford were proponents of DC. In fact Ford's original occupation was was tending the many DC power plants in Detroit. These coal-fired, steam-powered generators were needed in every neighborhood because DC current falls off the farther it gets from its source. Tesla's AC could be transmitted for long distances at high voltage and then stepped down with transformers near each neighborhood. The DC advocates tried to scare people. GE and other companies soon adopted AC systems with a central power plant and high voltage transmission lines and DC power became obsolete.

nicole-pocina-6 avatar
nicole
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that Tesla died a poor man and Edison lived his life as a wealthy inventor breaks my heart. Also, fun fact: Nikola Tesla was born in a little town/village not far from where my Grandma was born (in Croatia)

shelleykapach avatar
Shelley
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about some respect? He died alone despite being a genius.

3rainbow avatar
EJN
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tesla did great research, but Americans had the big PR scene in place. It is too bad that they didn't share the credit.

glgpst avatar
glg pst
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tesla a real genius but serbian, nowaday someone gave him the right recognition…..amazing cars🙈

clanmorello avatar
Lynn Morello
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

(f only the human race would have listened to Tesla and not the Money Moguls, The World would be so different now.

jj_17 avatar
J J
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not enough good things to say about the guy who predicted wireless communication a reeeeally long time ago

rickthephotoguy avatar
Rick Drew
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Should be #1. Invented the radio. Marconi got credit and the Nobel prize. The truth came out soon afterwards, but Marconi STILL gets credit. Discovered AC electricity. The light bulb and more. Edison stole it all. The electric motor. Tesla. The Transistor. Tesla. Radar. Neon signs.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#6

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along The inventor of dialysis, Dr. Willem Kolff. Although it's hard to blame them, haha. He saw people dying of kidney disease and said "Hey, what if we take all of the blood out of your body, clean it, and put it back in?" (Cleaning your blood is the job of your kidneys, and a dialysis machine is basically an artificial kidney, on the *outside* of your body.) It was a wild idea and he started his work during WWII and had to work with basic materials like orange juice cans, sausage skins, and a washing machine. Many of the first patients died, but they were already going to die painfully. Eventually, he ironed the kinks out and started saving lives.

Parmeisan Report

Add photo comments
POST
hawkmoon avatar
Hawkmoon
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now, many people, without hesitation, directly believe any dumb influencer who tells them to drink a detox drink because that's "useful and beneficial for your health". Strange world.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#7

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Lisa Bonet. She was vilified for hating Cosby in the 80s. Who’s the villain now?

jdward01 Report

Add photo comments
POST
lorrie_rothstein avatar
Lorrie Rothstein
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He didnt like when she was naked in a movie. He had her character denise leave diffrent world because she was pregnabt in real life

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#8

Corey Feldman talking about child sex abuse in Hollywood.

carissadraws Report

ADVERTISEMENT
#9

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along John Yudkin. The single scientist who didn't believe the sugar industry's research that demonized fats. Till his death he's adamant that fats weren't the cause of obesity and heart attacks.

HayakuEon , Faran Raufi Report

Add photo comments
POST
ruraynor avatar
rumade
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup, my mum read his book Pure, White and Deadly many years ago. People thought he was a conspiracy nut, because *surely* fat in food leads to fat in arteries. Tell that to the people who live in the Arctic Circle and traditionally eat large amounts of seal blubber. To be honest though, I hate this crusade against sugar we're now having. In the UK everything is packed with artificial sweeteners. I'd rather have real sugar, in small quantities as a treat than eat sweeteners regularly. There's emerging evidence that they do damage to your gut microbiome.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#10

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along There was a wacko looking guy on Oprah who stopped his vanilla presentation to tell the audience that plastic causes cancer, stop using it to store food and water.

Oprah cut to commercial and whisked him off the show.

Dude was right. BPAs were outed that day, but it took another decade for that info to become public knowledge.

Firethorn101 , wikipedia.org Report

#11

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Will Rogers a humorist when he invented the term "trickle-down" economics as a joke stating that this type of economy would just make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

And then we actually implemented it and used the term trickle-down. And Will Rogers was right.

The rent has gone though the roof and our salaries have stagnated and we can't afford "The American Dream" anymore.

Few-Frosting-1398 , wikipedia.org Report

Add photo comments
POST
leodomitrix avatar
Leo Domitrix
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact anyone voted twice for the administration that implemented trickle-down economics still shocks me, and I was alive for both times Reagan was voted in... And old enough to cry both times, too.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
#12

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Hemingway talked about the FBI following him prior to his suicide. They thought he was paranoid. Decades later some papers get released, turns out the FBI was following him.

ArchieBellTitanUp Report

Add photo comments
POST
bloodywilliamsgirlfriend avatar
Nunya Bus
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think at a certain point people should have just assumed every single famous person during Hoover's reign, be they a poet, author, actor, politician or activist was under FBI surveillance.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#13

Rutherford B Hayes. Not necessarily viewed as crazy, but largely viewed as a bad or useless president.

"This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations."

Said that in the late 1800's.

various_sneers Report

Add photo comments
POST
leodomitrix avatar
Leo Domitrix
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was POTUS 1876-81, after a very nasty election (think: the 2016 of its day). The qoute can be found in "The Diary & Letters" of same, published in the edition I've seen in 1920-something.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#14

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along During the plague in Moscow there was a priest (or something) DIScouraging people kissing the statue of Maria, as to stop the spreading of the virus.

The poor man was burned alive for blasphemy.

JustAbel , Yuri Levchenko Report

Add photo comments
POST
zeljkoklaric78_1 avatar
Bernd Herbert
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aww, the good old times where the church had much more power and religious beliefs were more common than nowadays.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#15

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Giordano Bruno was (probably) the first European who proposed the possibility that not only was the universe infinite, but stars were not just points of light in the sky; they could be suns with their own planets, and that some of those planets might even host life.

The Catholic Church had him tried for Heresy and had him burned at the stake and his contemporaries though he was completely insane. He had some kooky ideas, but he was absolutely right about the size of the universe and stars being suns with their own planets.

Randomcommenter550 Report

ADVERTISEMENT
#16

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Craig Ferguson having empathy for Britney Spears in his 2007 monologue.

carissadraws , wikipedia.org Report

#17

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Remember the government accountant in George W Bush’s presidency who said the war in Afghanistan would cost a billion dollars a month and he was fired? Well, he was right. It was 300 million dollars per day for 20 years.

CategoryTurbulent114 , Towfiqu barbhuiya Report

Add photo comments
POST
stephenleifer avatar
Stephen Leifer
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least former Halliburton CEO, Cheney, got his company no-bid contracts to help rebuild Iraq.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#18

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Anyone who covered their webcam camera.

ironwolf6464 , Emiliano Cicero Report

Add photo comments
POST
harlequin avatar
Xottel
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which is weird because never have I witnessed anyone cover their phone camera.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#19

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Heinrich Schliemann. He 100% believed that ancient Troy had really existed. So he armed himself with a copy of the Iliad, and actually managed to find and excavate the city. He'd told everyone and their sister that Troy was a real place for 40 years before he found it, and everyone thought he was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Not so much, it turns out.

ChaoticForkingGood , wikipedia.org Report

#20

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Martha Mitchell.. She was like part of the reason why it was discovered that Nixon was involved in Watergate. Her husband was part of the Nixon group so she got some inside details. When she wanted to tell the news about the whole scandal, her husband and Nixon men put her in a hotel and restrained her from having any contact with anyone. She was seen as an insane person her husband and Nixon's men even managed to convince the psychiatrists that she was out of her mind.

Actually there's a phenomenon in psychology which was named after her a.k.a the Martha Mitchell Effect

DelMarion67 , wikipedia.org Report

Add photo comments
POST
kd avatar
K D
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From Wikipedia: “The Martha Mitchell effect refers to the process by which a psychiatrist, psychologist, mental health clinician, or other medical professional labels a patient's accurate perception of real events as delusional, resulting in misdiagnosis.”

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
ADVERTISEMENT
See Also on Bored Panda
#21

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Charles Darwin. The religious outcry against evolution was engineered by his academic rivals more than from religious resistance. But even now, after all that politics is centuries dead, there remain people who categorically resist demonstrable fact because of it.

Wintermute , wikipedia.org Report

Add photo comments
POST
jlh1134206 avatar
Wintermute
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be more commonly known. I didn't learn about the roots of the rejection of evolution until I was in a college level anthropology course. I always assumed it was a religious objection. Just proves that religion isn't qualified to know what it's upset about.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#22

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Galileo - he believed the Earth and other planets orbited the Sun, contrary to popular belief that all stars and planets orbited Earth. The Catholic Church called it heresy, and ordered him to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin a trial for his beliefs.

FluffyUnicorn949 , wikipedia.org Report

Add photo comments
POST
stephenleifer avatar
Stephen Leifer
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Galileo knew to tread lightly. His colleague, Giordano Bruno, was executed via burning at the stake for believing in heliocentricity.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#23

Rachel Caron found that DDT was weakening the shells of bird eggs and contributing to the decline in the bald eagle population. She faced quite a bit of backlash from publishing her book "Silent Spring" detailing her research on the topic.

plasticbegone Report

#24

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Eisenhower. Re: The military–industrial complex

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

going_dot_global , wikipedia.org Report

Add photo comments
POST
matthewcoughlin avatar
Matthew Coughlin
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And no one talks about Eisenhower's 99% taxation plan on businesses unless they increased wages, offered more benefits, gave payed time off, etc.

View more commentsArrow down menu
#25

Carrie Nation of the Temperance/Prohibition movement

She has been ridiculed and lambasted by history as a kooky, prudish anti-alcohol crusader. But she was actually a diligent progressive activist working through a proto-social justice lens.

Her beef wasn't with alcohol, but rather with distilleries and suppliers flooding small towns with enormous quantities of cheap, low-quality liquor with the explicit intent of turning emotionally devastated WWI veterans into drunkards for profit. (The knock-on effects of that campaign included rampant domestic violence and poverty.)

Gal was working to uplift the most vulnerable people and is only remembered for making a show of smashing bottles.

tripometer Report

Add photo comments
POST
smuttirox avatar
Stephanie A Mutti
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone who publicly tries to uplift the vulnerable will be made a mockery by the powerful; it's not within their agenda to share power.

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#26

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along All the people that said the NSA/CIA was spying on us for years.
Thanks to edward Snowden we now know that was true and it was so much so that the NSA had built back doors in pretty much every single electronic device that exsists all the way down to the network switch level on cisco switches and the internet backbone through AT&T network hubs. The fact that there wasnt mass revolt after that information was released kinda blew my mind.

thedarklord187 , ROBIN WORRALL Report

Add photo comments
POST
gemmelltastic avatar
Got Myself 4 Pandas
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm likely in a minority but I really don't give any f***s if people want to waste time listening into my daily life/phone/emails etc - all they're going to get is me talking c**p with mates, my husband and my kids, meme wars that go on for months at a time, the insane number of cake decorating videos I watch and my true crime obsession. I don't see some government employed person bored oot their tits seeing the drivel people talk as an invasion of privacy - and if snooping on folks interactions prevents some big disaster like the twin towers then I think it's worth it. And I kinda like the fact I'll mention wanting a new mattress and then getting every ad directed towards mattresses, it reminds me to look for them when I'd likely otherwise forget as my brain is like Swiss cheese

View More Replies...
View more commentsArrow down menu
#27

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Boltzman spend his life trying to prove his formula but ended up commiting suicide because none of his collegues believed him. Now, his formula is basically the 'amen' in thermodynamics.

Ashweed137 Report

#28

Morgan Robertson.

In 1898 he published a story about a ship named the Titan, a fictional ship, that sinks after hitting an iceberg. Allegedly (and I can’t find any proof of this) it was initially dismissed for being too outlandish.

14 years later, the Titanic sinks in an eerily similar fashion. Robertson dismissed all claims of being psychic, and was just familiar with ships of the time and their flaws.

luckybutjinxed Report

#29

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along I don't know that guy's name but he basically from 1541-1542 travelled accross south america. The first european to do so. While he was on his journey he said he saw millions of people and large cities , with a lot of life in them , where today is the amazon rainforest.After he had finished his journey he had told the stories of those cities and about a hundred years later when explorers visited the place there was nothing , no cities , no people , just jungle. So they thought he had made all that up. But modern technology has shown that there might have accually been a lot of cities there , and that those people died out with smallpox and all cities were covered by the jungle within the course of 50 years. So basically people thought he was crazy and made everything up but in modern times its proven that he was right all along.

softredina , Isaac Quesada Report

Add photo comments
POST
juliebruton avatar
Julie Bruton
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The explorer was Francisco de Orellana. The YouTube link for the BBC documentary, Unnatural Histories, is https://youtu.be/ihvySe6yROE

View more commentsArrow down menu
#30

30 “Crazy” People Who Were Proven To Be Right All Along Dr. Atkins.

When his first book 'The New Diet Revolution' came out, he was mocked and ridiculed for thinking that refined sugars, flour, and starch caused the glycemic index to skyrocket which led to your body storing fat. When he died people thought he died from his own diet.

Keto-acidosis and how you can lose weight by reducing your glycemic index was largely his research.

It was later stolen and copied and called 'The Zone Diet' and 'The Caveman Diet' and 'The Paleo Diet' which were all based on his work.

tommygunz007 Report

Note: this post originally had 44 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.

See Also on Bored Panda