The25002@lemmings.worldtoAsk Science@lemmy.world•Has there ever been anything originally dismissed as pseudoscience that was later proven to be legit?English
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3 months agoI’ll go with… Probably not a good idea to ingest radium.
I’ll go with… Probably not a good idea to ingest radium.
Kind of a reverse Uno on your question, but I thought it was interesting while Nazism came to prominence, some scientists were like hey I’m just as racist and anti-semitic as you, but this race stuff you’re doing isn’t very scientific. They were dismissed as quacks. Later after doing horrible experiments, nazi scientists were frustrated that their findings weren’t adding up to their ideology.
Gah, I was going to say plate tectonics.
Yeah, used to think that of the nazi scientists, but that was done for Japanese scientists because as awful as they were they actually provided useful data. The nazi scientists stuff was pretty much useless because it was all in furthering their dumb race shit.