Alonso Bierg - Daft (Original Mix)

when they think your, "Daft", (silly; foolish), yeah i distinctively remember, they get it wrong quite a bit of the time, and here is a brief summary of just how much they have gotten wrong, when the proposers of these theories, were finally vindicated, While it's true that at least 99% of revolutionary announcements, from the fringes of science, are just as bogus as they seem, we cannot dismiss every one of them, without further investigation. (academic snobbery and egotistical not to mention foolish), If we do, then we'll certainly take our place, among the ranks of scoffers who accidentally helped delay, large numbers of major scientific discoveries, throughout all of  history. Beware, for many discoveries such as powered flight, and drifting continents, today only appear sane and acceptable, because we have such powerful hindsight. These same advancements, were seen as obviously a bunch of disgusting, lunatic, garbage, during the years they were first discovered. In science, pursuing revolutionary advancements can be like searching for diamonds hidden in sewage. It's a shame that the realms of questionable ideas contain, diamonds of great value. This makes the of judging crazy theories, far more difficult. If crazy discoveries, were always bogus, then we'd have good reason to reject them, without further investigation. However, since the diamonds exist, we must distrust our first impressions. Sometimes the obvious craziness, turns out to be a genuine cutting-edge discovery. As with the little child questioning the emperor's clothing, sometimes, (but rarely, of course,), the entire scientific community, is misguided and incompetent. Sometimes only the lone voice, of the maverick scientist is willing and ready to tell you the truth.  Below is a list of scientists who were reviled for their crack pottery, only to be later proven correct. Today's science texts are dishonest, to the extent that they hide these huge mistakes, made by the scientific community. They rarely discuss the embarrassing acts, of intellectual suppression, which were directed at the following researchers, by their colleagues. And. I've never encountered any similar list. This is very telling and disturbing.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him, by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy, against him. - Jonathan Swift
THE LIST:
B Belousov, Carl Woese, Gilbert Ling, John C. Lilly
Arrhenius (ion chemistry)
Alfven, Hans (galaxy-scale plasma dynamics)
Baird, John L. (television camera)
Bakker, Robert (fast, warm-blooded dinosaurs)
Bardeen & Brattain (transistor)
Bretz J Harlen (ice age geology)
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (black holes in 1930)
Chladni, Ernst (meteorites in 1800)
Crick & Watson (DNA)
Doppler (optical Doppler effect)
AE Douglass (tree-ring dating)
Folk, Robert L. (existence and importance of nanobacteria)
Galvani (bioelectricity)
Harvey, William (circulation of blood, 1628)
Krebs (ATP energy, Krebs cycle)
Galileo (supported the Copernican viewpoint)
Gauss, Karl F. (nonEuclidean geometery)
Binning/Roher/Gimzewski (scanning-tunneling microscope)
Goddard, Robert (rocket-powered space ships)
Goethe (Land color theory)
Gold, Thomas (deep non-biological petroleum deposits)
Gold, Thomas (deep mine bacteria)
Lister, J (sterilizing)
Lovelock, James (Gaia theory)
Maiman, T (Laser)
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities, etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors. - Einstein
Margulis, Lynn (endosymbiotic organelles)
Mayer, Julius R. (The Law of Conservation of Energy)
Marshall, B (ulcers caused by bacteria, helicobacter pylori)
McClintock, Barbara (mobile genetic elements, "jumping genes", transposons)
Newlands, J. (pre-Mendeleev periodic table)
Nott, J. C. (mosquitos xmit Yellow Fever)
Nottebohm, F. (neurogenesis: brains can grow neurons)
Ohm, George S. (Ohm's Law)
Ovshinsky, Stanford R. (amorphous semiconductor devices)
Parker, Eugene (existence of a 'solar wind')
Pasteur, Louis (germ theory of disease)
Prusiner, Stanley (existence of prions, 1982)
Rous, Peyton (viruses cause cancer)
Semmelweis, I. (surgeons wash hands, puerperal fever )
Shechtman, Dan (quasicrystals)
Steen-McIntyre, Virginia (southwest US indians villiage , 300,000BC)
Tesla, Nikola (Earth electrical resonance, "Schumann" resonance)
Tesla, Nikola (brushless AC motor)
J H van't Hoff (molecules are 3D)
Warren, Warren S (flaw in MRI theory)
Wegener, Alfred (continental drift)
Wright, Wilbur & Orville (flying machines)
Zwicky, Fritz (existence of dark matter, 1933)
Zweig, George (quark theory)
Some ridiculed ideas which had no single supporter:
Ball lightning (lacking a theory, it was long dismissed as retinal afterimages)
Catastrophism (ridicule of rapid Earth changes, asteroid mass extinctions)
Child abuse (before Kempe 1962, doctors were mystified by spontaneous childhood bruising and broken bones)
Cooperation or altruism between animals (versus Evolution's required competition)
Instantaneous meteor noises (evidence rejected because sound should be delayed by distance)
Mind-body connection (psychoneuroimmunology, doctors ridiculed any emotional basis for disease)
Perceptrons (later vindicated as Neural Networks)
Permanent magnet levitation (Levitron shouldn't have worked but does)
Thoughts and emotions do exist (rejected as contrary to stimulus-response of 1950s Behaviorist theory.)
BREAKTHROUGHS DURING DREAMS
Crick, Structure of DNA
Friedrich Kekule, Carbon chains & Benzene Ring sipping brandy, half asleep
S. Ramanujan, multiple proofs detailed daydreams
Otto Loewi, Acetylcholine woke up, wrote it down
Einstein, Special Relativity fever dream while ill
L. Agazzi saw living versions of fossil animals
Mendeleev, periodic table dream of music/chemistry
H. Poincare, general solution woke up, wrote it down
Notes: I constantly hear the above problem being dismissed; that the number of breakthroughs from crackpots, is relatively tiny, or that vindicated mavericks are rare and exceptional. But we need to be careful with this. After all, the number of uneducated crazy people, is enormous, but this has little impact on number of new ideas, in professional science. It's not honest to simply ask, how many crazy ideas are actually crazy. Instead ask how many crazy funding proposals, from successful scientists have turned out, to be genuinely worthless. I'm guessing that the number is quite low. Perhaps the number of crazy-yet-vindicated research projects, is large enough that it's much higher, than the number of genuinely stupid, research projects. (In that case, we should be preferentially funding a proposal because it looks crazy.)
So, if you're going to dismiss or scoff, at some crazy idea without bothering to first, give it a chance and taking an unbiased look, at least make sure the idea is coming from, a common crackpot. Few of those are worth much. Make damn certain that the crazy, Isn't coming from a professional scientist, who is trying to fund a research project, to give that weird-yet-untested idea a serious go.
another few more names that we're called crazy,
Galileo
Semmelweis
Wegener
McClintlock
Nottebohm
Bretz
Prusiner
Zwicky
Marshall
Shechtman
and J. Edgar Lilienfeld, who invented the transistor in 1923, but after a decade had made no headway against disbelief, and finally retired and gave up. Two decades later Bell Labs *stumbled upon*, (industrial espionage), the modern Bipolar transistor, when trying to find some way to get around the expired 1925 Lilienfeld patents, on the Field Effect Transistor, so don't be disheartened, if no one else believes you, as long as you believe in you, that is all that really matters as, standardz, hahahahahaha, standardz, hahahahahahaha, :) #edio