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5. Semmelweis is a perfect example

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 11, 2012, 08:56 PM

Jun 2012

There were empirical differences in outcomes depending on whether surgeons washed their hands, but because there was no known mechanism at the time that could account for this, he was hugely ridiculed. Yet he was merely ahead of generally accepted scientific theory.

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Quackery Then and Now [View all] HuckleB Jun 2012 OP

yeah, and maybe alternative practitioners will end up like Semmelweis Celebration Jun 2012 #1

If that's all you can offer as a defense of alternative BS, well.... HuckleB Jun 2012 #3

Seems quite unlikely to me. MineralMan Jun 2012 #4

Semmelweis is a perfect example Celebration Jun 2012 #5

Not so. Semmelweis recognized that it was MineralMan Jun 2012 #7

and he wasn't believed Celebration Jun 2012 #8

Can you count the logical fallacies you've offered as a way of defending quackery...? HuckleB Jun 2012 #9

Du rec. Nt xchrom Jun 2012 #2

Meh! My homeopathic remedies still work the same! longship Jun 2012 #6