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

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

Another clarification is that he did not have a nervous breakdown. His fellow doctors conspired to have him comitted to a mental asylum (because he wouldn't stop insisting), he was severely mistreated there, and died from the injuries. Infection I believe.

I like the additional information on this. Usually I only see the first part mentioned.

Another big maternity scandal was the invention of forceps. The father and son accouchers (birth attendants) invented forceps in the 16th century, at a time when obstructed labour was common (because of poor nutrition, many women had pelvic bone issues that made v*ginal delivery difficult, meaning labour could go on for days leading to the death of the fetus, and often of the mother too. They kept their forceps secret-no one was allowed to be in the room when they used them, and they put up a screen to block the mother's view of what they were using. It was 100 years before the secret was out-many thousands of mothers and babies had died in the meantime, when they might have been saved if the Chamberlens had shared their discovery/invention.

I remember reading a novel set in the 1800's, I believe. It described in graphic detail a hospital from that time. Don't know if this is historically accurate, but the author described how nurses would take the bandages from one pus-filled wound on one patient, and put them onto the wounds of people fresh out of surgery. Why on earth would they do that you ask? Because they thought pus was a NORMAL part of the healing process and essential for healing. It really would not surprise me if this scenario actually happened. No wonder most people back then were afraid of hospitals. That's where people died, rather than got better.

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.

When I meet a Catholic, I am always careful not to confuse the institution with their faith and so treat them with respect. But I often wonder how they can so easily overlook all of the many scandals in the church. Particularly when it comes to child abuse. I just couldn't do it myself.

this one is rightfully in the first place

I was utterly flummoxed at how people reacted. All those decades - centuries - of hearing people joke about catholic priests fondling kids and having illicit hookups, and then when she said something without joking, nobody made that connection. Everyone knew what was going on and did nothing. She said something and got s**t thrown at her.

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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

Just a spelling mistake. Kotoku Wamura

Nice to know that ONE government financed wall was actually a good idea.

Makes me wonder what other discoveries men stole from women.

Also,she wanted to go out on the ship that gathered data but they wouldn't let her because it was 'too dangerous for a woman'. Instead she was tasked with mapping out the depth of the sea floor,I think leading to the discovery of the Marianna trench. Her first map was so surprising that the male scientists made her redo all of her calculations again from scratch!

Read "Lessons in Chemistry," written by Bonnie Garmus. It's fiction, but it's about the same thing in the same era.

Well that's just b******t

Women stink

Watch athlete a. It's heartbreaking

Before Moceanu, there were other people who criticized the whole messed-up culture of elite gymnastics. The journalist Joan Ryan wrote a book about it called "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" in 1995 and was largely dismissed as an outsider who didn't know any better. Jamie Dantzscher criticized Bela Karolyi for how he behaved in his leadership role at the 2000 Olympics and was dismissed as a whiner. It's only with the sexual abuse scandal that this stuff is no longer being ignored; the emotional and physical abuse was accepted for decades.

Seems like the female USA gymnastics should have female trainers instead of male trainers for that matter any sports that have a female team should have female trainers. If the USA gymnastic team had female trainers none of this would have happen.

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100% incorrect. The Church never threatened Copernicus (who was a Catholic Priest) or Galileo. Galileo was stating his theory of heliocentricism was Fact when he couldn’t prove it. The Church was correct and wise telling Galileo not to insist something is a fact when it cannot be proven. Moreover, he wasn’t ever tortured and died as a faithful Catholic. The Church historically have been sponsors of scientific research, not suppressors. The man who theorized The Big Bang Theory was a priest, the Jesuits are known as the Fathers of Astronomy and it was the Church who originated formal education for the common man and the Church initially established the University Educational system.

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

he also proposed and implemented programs to reeducate people with jobs that were becoming more and more obsolete (e.g., steelworkers, autoworkers, punchkey operators, etc.) so that they could work in more skilled/relevant jobs....very few workers took advantage of these programs...and the people in KY, MI, OH, PA have complained to politicians for at least four decades that they don't have jobs and that their communities have collapsed...and you still see politicians saying they will bring the now obsolete jobs back...everyone wants the easy (yet unrealistic) fix...and jimmy carter was just an honest politician offering real solutions...now those same people are all voting for trump, the antithesis of carter...