> History is full of people who challenged this thinking and completely overhauled human understanding of a topic
At the risk of argumentum ad logicam, this is a textbook example of survivorship bias. History is also full of people who were adamant they were correct in the face of ridicule, and turned out to be wrong anyway.
At the risk of argumentum ad logicam, this is a textbook example of survivorship bias. History is also full of people who were adamant they were correct in the face of ridicule, and turned out to be wrong anyway.