History Unplugged Podcast · History Unplugged
Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
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Louis Pasteur engaged in human experimentation, killed a small girl with a rabies vaccine, and covered it up to protect his funding.
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A sharp look at the cost of being right before everyone else is ready.
History Unplugged tracks a stubborn problem in science: people can be right and still get punished long before anyone admits it. It moves from Alexander Gordon and Ignaz Semmelweis to Pierre Louis, Joseph Lister, and Jean Toussaint, showing how doctors, institutions, and…
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You want the history of science when the evidence was right and the system was wrong.
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