Seven Cases: Examples of How Important Ideas Were Initially Attacked or Ridiculed by the Professions

David M. Allen; Elizabeth A. Reedy

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36822-7_5

Seven Cases: Examples of How Important Ideas Were Initially Attacked or Ridiculed by the Professions

David M. Allen, Elizabeth A. Reedy

Division of Social Sciences (Abington)

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This chapter explores how new and innovative ideas in science can be blocked and set back because of group behavior. It discusses seven famous examples of setbacks in science and the stories of the innovative scientists who came up with the resisted ideas that were later vindicated. It also discusses how some were able to finally break through resistance in their fields themselves, but others were not. The cases involve theories about prions, kin selection, the dangers of lead in gasoline, the infectious cause of peptic ulcer disease, continental drift, neurogenesis in the brains of adult birds and mammals, and the use of incubators for premature infants.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Groupthink in Science
Subtitle of host publication	Greed, Pathological Altruism, Ideology, Competition, and Culture
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	49-62
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030368227
ISBN (Print)	9783030368210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36822-7_5
State	Published - Jan 1 2020

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General Psychology
General Medicine
General Social Sciences

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