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> 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.




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