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

They knew lead was bad before they ever started adding it gas. What the oil companies didn't know was what the effects on the atmosphere were. Their approach, much like you see know, is deny, do no or little research, and put it in now and we will deal with it later. Oil companies have been c**p forever

Fun Fact: Leaded gasoline was invented by Thomas Midgley, Jr, who also developed/commercialized the use of Freon for refrigeration.

They even tried to bribe him to get rid of or alter his findings but he was having none of that.

Nobody though that he was crazy. People simply never heard of him because the oil companies were so effective in shutting him down. This repeated set of false histories, created to create common false narratives of "look, everybody thought that HE/SHE was crazy, but look now!!! It is a narrative typically pushed by anti-science types who are trying to "prove" that when scientists say that somebody is crazy, the scientists are always wrong. In fact, when scientists say that somebody is crazy, the scientists are almost always right. However, when industry people claim that somebody is crazy, you should really look at what that person is saying. Industry only calls somebody "crazy" if that person is saying something that threatens the industry's profits.

Three clean room was created due to his tests on measuring lead, since he kept finding lead in everything. Including but not limited to his assistant's lipstick/makeup, which unfortunately is still a thing!

"the Catholic Church was covering up child abuse." IS covering up child abuse. Just a little fix.

I've always been a fan. I saw this episode live. I remember thinking that takes some guts and was suprised at how much negative respose it got.

Was? She still is being vilified in some circles.

this sickens me

Enda Kenny Taoiseach had this brilliance to say. I've never heard a WM politician so utterly convincing or truthful, much less a Church leader. Enda ripped the guts out of any denial by anyone anywhere. Probably why we don't hear it enough. “Tuam is not just a burial ground, it is a social and cultural sepulchre. That is what it is. As a society in the so-called ‘good old days’, we did not just hide away the dead bodies of tiny human beings, we dug deep and deeper still to bury our compassion, our mercy and our humanity itself,”

No one thought he was crazy. They thought he was smart and responsible which is why he was in charge of making that call. I dont think the author understands the topic or they were short on content.

This man should have won the Nobel Prize before anyone else!

And we thank God that he made this decision. It is scary how close we are to nuclear war, all of the time.

Vasali Arkhapov was even better.

I feel bad for her, b/c it took such a toll on her, and none on that piece of filth hanging off the a**e of a sheep with diarrhea.

Similar story with Jen Kirkman about Louis CK. She tried for YEARS to get people to believe her about him, but it wasn't until a bunch more female comedians came forward with similar stories that society was like "....oh." Unfortunately, it takes many to bring down one in horrible cases such as these.

Brava Rose. She paid a hard price for being gutsy.

Too early? That's A weird way to phrase it. Like she should have waited?

I want to know why those who enabled him have not been totally blacklisted? The most prominent one, in my mind, is Oprah. She knew what was going on and would still bring young girls to meet him and then leave them alone with him until they got themselves out of his clutches.

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

Tesla was quite literally the Father of the 20th Century.

At the hands of that nefarious thief, Edison.

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.

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.