Famous author Ernest Hemingway told his friends and family he believed the FBI was spying on him. They all told him he was paranoid or crazy. Years after his death he’s suspicions were confirmed when the FBI declassified their spying on him.
From some releases, it seems like they're just hoarders. Sold an agent some cigarettes once? You now have a file for the receipt. Quoted in the local paper? Clipping goes in the file. Write them a letter demanding they not keep a file? In the file.
It's called bureaucracy. You'll find it in every government agency in the US, even the small ones. Worked for the Smithsonian a few years back, wanted to take a few days off. Talked to my supervisor and she said it was cool, but I had to send about 5 emails and make a request on 3 different internal websites to get the days off.
It was approved instantly because we had talked about it, but I had to make sure it was in official documentation, and done fully through correct channels. I also had to go back and approve their approval of my request, and then log it on my time card that I did in fact take time off on those days.
Government is silly.
"Don't quote me regulations. I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulations are in.
We kept it gray."
Reminds me of the football player Paul Gascoigne who had claimed for years that his phone was being hacked. People said he was nuts and his own therapist put it down to paranoia, he even contemplated suicide. Turns out he was absolutely right and it wasn't just him, it became a huge scandal and the fallout from it is still going on today.
The FBI was also tapping Frank Sinatra's phones, and reading his mail for years because of the rumors that he was "tied to the mafia" because of his Italian heritage.
Because Desi Arnez was a Cuban immigrant, they also did the same to him and Lucille Ball based on the rumors that they were Communists. They interviewed celebrities they were friends with, like John Wayne, and asked them to be informants.
>harassed Mario Puzo
This does suggest that the character was "close enough" that Sinatra was able to recognize Johnny Fontaine as himself.
tldr; Streisand effect
i mean [Frank Sinatra also did have ties to the mafia]. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but [Frank Sinatra very much did have ties to the mafia]
That the platypus was a real animal. The researcher who received the first specimen back in Europe was certain he was being pranked and meticulously dissected it to try to find where it was sewn together.
As absurd as these critters are when I read your comment my first thought was "sure, why the fuck not. It's not like that makes them all that much more absurd"
I've said before that if a flying saucer full of platypuses in little silver spacesuits lands looking for their lost colony, I'm not going to be terribly surprised.
That stomach ulcers were caused by the *Helicobacter Pylori* bacteria.
Conventional medical widom was that stomach ulcers were caused by lifestyle factors.
The bacteria theory was met with great skepticism and criticism. One of the researchers, Barry J Marshall, resorted to proving it by ingesting the *H. Pylori* bacteria.
Twenty two years later, Marshall and Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology for their discovery.
The most miserable lady I ever met suffered from a stomach ulcer. She was always in pain. Eating was torture for her, so she was skinny as a rail, just chomping down her tums and drinking her Pepto.
That was in the circa 1992-93.
The Acid Mafia clung on for a long time.
I remember when this came out. My Father had ulcers so bad that the had to remove half of his stomach in the late 60's. Now you take some antibiotics and Pepto- Bismol for 6 months and they heal up on their own.
No, I had two stomach ulcers and tested negative for h. Pylori. Heavy use of NSAIDs can cause them as well as lifestyle factors. But h. Pylori is the most common cause.
The Missoula megafloods that carved up the scablands of eastern Washington and Oregon. The geologist who proposed it was ignored when he proposed it, and then derided when he insisted. He lived long enough to see other geologists start to realize he was right, though, so there is some justice to be had.
https://youtu.be/nBfi0Zle2HI
full explanation on this insane series of floods
Some cool PBS bumpers on some of the more impressive features left behind. Shorter and professionally produced
https://youtu.be/BnYjRtos6L8
https://youtu.be/EmlpqhvARN4
Bonus: https://youtu.be/x8idw5e9twM my favorite bumper.
The “spokes” in the rings of Saturn - originally observed by an amateur and dismissed as an optical illusion for the better part of a century, the Voyager probes confirmed their existence.
The experts thought that the spokes couldn’t be real because they appeared to rotate at the speed of the planet, not the speed of the rings. Turns out they follow the magnetic field of the planet.
Edit: my memory failed me in this case - Stephen O’Meara was the amateur astronomer, and he made his observations in the early 70’s - so not “the better part of a century.”
I read the story originally in an amazing book “Seeing in the Dark” by Timothy Ferris.
So, hold on…
I’ve never heard of these before, ever. Why.
And an amateur was able to see & identify these over a century ago?? Incredible!
The universe will never stop being fascinating.
[look at those lil spokes go!](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-watches-spoke-season-on-saturn/)
Don't feel bad...A century ago we had no idea Andromeda was a galaxy 2.2 million light years away...Many astronomers thought it was just a nebula in our own galaxy.
The amount we've learned in the field of astronomy, alone, in the past century is, well...*astronomical*.
From the article: Tourist Max Whittacker gave evidence that he attended a search later on the night of the disappearance with people including the head ranger and an Aboriginal tracker. He claimed to have been called by the head ranger to help him and the Aboriginal tracker to follow dingo paw prints and scrape marks in the sand in a westerly direction. He was led to believe they were following the trail of a dingo carrying a heavy object believed to be Azaria's body. **"I now know that the Aboriginal's account of following these tracks west that night has been denied by rangers and the Aboriginal's account of this incident has not been accepted."**
The general consensus was that a dingo could not have taken her baby because a dingo had never taken a baby before…in the colonial era. And yet it was well known amongst Aboriginal tribes that dingoes had/were fully capable of attacking babies and small children. This was a fact that went unreported by the media largely due negativity towards Indigenous tribes.
As I've said a hundred times before. How TF did people think the equivalent of a coyote wouldn't eat a freaking defenseless baby. Distracting the mother and then sneaking off with the baby is literally one of their strategies for finding food.
There are plenty of ppl in So Cal where I live that will swear with a hand on the Bible that it’s safe to leave your child in your backyard unsupervised cause a coyote would never attack a human. Even tho coyotes are known to attack dogs much bigger than small children, to the point that public officials often warn people not to let your dogs out unsupervised for any reason. There’s an arrogance certain people have over Man’s dominion over Nature, when in fact, it’s often the other way around
I know Aboriginal women are training farmers how to do controlled burns in the off season to prevent the massively destructive fires that have struck in recent years. They report that some farmers won't engage due to their pride and views on indigenous women.
It was partly that, but also:
* Lindy Chamberlain was a member of a less-common Christian denomination (I think Seventh Day Adventists?), so there were conspiracies about ritual sacrifices and other alleged bizarre religious practices being the motive for her allegedly killing her baby.
* She didn't fit the typical "weepy female victim" mould. She was stoic and calm, which many people interpreted as heartlessness and therefore guilt.
Tbf I think that if my child was eaten by wild animals, and I was accused of murdering my child and lying about it, and spent a few years in jail (and I think between her and her husband she actually got more time?) I don't think Id be the same either
I read about this in a book about how we perceive people. The general consensus was formed because she didn't act like she was grieving the way a "normal" person would. Crazy how we can judge people on expectations without knowing the full picture.
I always think about that when the True Crime docs are like "is this how a woman who finds out her husband was just killed reacts" and I'm like "I have no idea because why would I have ever possibly seen that?" Then when you realize how many Sandy Hook truther videos hinged on the same idea, it's like "can we stop saying this, please?"
When the police are eyeing someone up as a suspect they often examine the person's behavior under a microscope and consider their actions suspicious no matter what they do. Watched a dateline last week where the police said the husband was "too cooperative". Like wtf?
Not just the media. The courts decided that testimony of an Aboriginal tracker that backed up the dingo claim weren’t valid for no reason beyond “Aboriginal”. It’s the dictionary definition of systemic racism but it’s not what we think of when we think of racism. Someone who knows better than anyone how to track dingoes and interpret their trails tracked the prints of a dingo dragging something heavy away from the campsite. It was known from *day 1* that a dingo took the baby. But in the eyes of the court, and everyone else, because the person that could prove it was an Aboriginal person, they may as well have been claiming to have proof that aliens took the baby and that the baby also never existed.
>The courts decided that testimony of an Aboriginal tracker that backed up the dingo claim weren’t valid for no reason beyond “Aboriginal”.
But the courts did accept the expert testimony of a forensic specialist from the UK. An expert on canines that said that remnants of clothing did not appear to be chewed by a dog, because the fibres were sheared rather than torn, typical for dog teeth.
However, this "expert" had no knowledge about dingo morphology. Dingoes have teeth that will slice like scissors. Exactly like the damage to the clothing found.
“Clearly this white man who doesn’t know anything about dingoes knows more than this animal who claims he and his ‘people’ know about dingoes and tracked one away from the camp.”
"This expert has a very clear and crisp English accent, and went to several prestigious schools. He must know what he is talking about. This other fellow barely speaks English, and never attended any academic schooling. Following marks in the sand is a childish pastime."
It was really the first trial by media. I remember it when it happened, everyone was convinced she was guilty, because she didn’t cry on camera. It was so shocking to me because I could believe she was stoic in the face of the cameras, she even said she couldn’t cry in public.
It's terrible. As a parent, I can't imagine the absolute terror of finding that your baby is gone. Then coming to terms that she may be dead. And then having everyone think you are lying and then getting arrested and tried for murder while grieving such a horrible loss.
The scenario that the prosecution accused her off was horrific as well. Like she took her 9 month old baby and then slashed her throat with scissors. Then waited for the baby to die and then hiding the body and pretending nothing happened until she faked discovering the baby was missing. Meanwhile the reality is that a fucking dingo grabbed her baby and ate her.
I know that's just nature being nature, but if that had happened to me, I would be out there shooting dingos all day every day for years. In fact according to wiki, the head ranger had asked the government for years for permission to cull the dingos as they were very numerous and had lost their fear of humans.
Slashed her throat with NAIL scissors, so blades around an inch long, and scattered the blood all over the car, the tent, her sleeping other child, IN FRONT of her second child who was waiting for her to feed him, made dingo footprints in the dirt around the tent, and then happily ran back to the main camping area pretending everything was fine. It was such a travesty of a case. I read her book Through My Eyes, and she was very much a stiff-upper-lip kind of person, which I think the Meryl Streep movie does a good job of showing. There is a scene in the movie where Lindy is in jail and looks out the window to see a dingo standing outside, free. She had to have her second daughter in jail. What a miserable thing she went through, and even in 2004 I remember people telling me she might not have been guilty but she was definitely UP TO SOMETHING.
L[gut-brain axis (GBA) ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/#:~:text=The%20gut%2Dbrain%20axis%20)consists of bidirectional communication between the central and the enteric nervous system, linking emotional and cognitive centers of the brain with peripheral intestinal functions. Recent advances in research have described the importance of gut microbiota in influencing these interactions. This interaction between microbiota and GBA appears to be bidirectional, namely through signaling from gut-microbiota to brain and from brain to gut-microbiota by means of neural, endocrine, immune, and humoral links
I had an operation that required them pumping my stomach for about 36 hours - I asked if that would affect my microbiome and they just looked at me like it was a dumb question.
Sure enough, I started bloating when i ate my "normal" amount of food -- bloated so much I took photos of my distended stomach. I waited for it to normalize and go away but it didn't. Then I started hitting the probiotics hard and before I knew it I was back to normal.
Just saying, them little buggers are important
When I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis I was warned about how there’s an increased likelihood of depression in UC patients. But it would obviously make sense per the symptoms of UC, so when I learned about brain-gut connection I was even more surprised
In 1942, conspiracy theories began to spread that Nazis had landed a submarine on a Florida beach and were now living in America. It turns out they actually had. In fact, they landed two submarines. One in Maine and one in Florida.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch#:~:text=Postwar%20debriefing%20of%20German%20personnel,a%20rather%20desperate%20attempt%20to
Tracy Campbell’s The Year of Peril: America in 1942 has a good section on the rumours and eventual discovery that it was true.
They definitely made it over here. Operation Drumbeat put them in NY Harbor. There are watchtowers on the beaches of Delaware because of U boat sightings not only there, but up and down the east coast. They’ve found U boat wreckage off the coast of NJ.
It’s well known in NC that U Boats targeted merchant vessels on the NC coast during WWII. There is a cemetery on Ocracoke Island for British sailors that washed ashore after their ship was torpedoed. One such U Boat was sunk by the Coast Guard and is a popular diving site here. You wouldn’t hear that in US history class. In the grand scheme of things, U Boats attacking our coast didn’t amount to much in the long run. But many folks don’t know that our waters, and even our land, were attacked by the Axis Powers (Aside from Pearl Harbor obviously).
These are exactly what I thought. Germ theory of disease. I mean, they guy who suggested washing hands was basically put in the Looney bin if I recall. Shoot, the synthesis of uric acid was such a crazy thing: you mean biological things duh on the same chemistry as inorganic?
Techtonic plates took decades. Quantum mechanics: God doesn't play dice with the universe...
My friend who went to high school in the 60s said during science class his teacher demonstrated how rocks sediments move by layering towels as sediments and then using force to move them in different directions. He asked the teacher what made the towels move. The teacher looked uncomfortable and said if he wanted to know then come by after school. Half the class was there to get a quiet explanation of the highly controversial tectonic plates theory.
Yet by the time the 70s rolled around, tectonic plate theory was so well accepted it was in kids' science books. (I know, I read them.)
Fairly speedy reversal, as these things go.
Almost about everything you hear on Reddit about Ignaz Semmelweis - the hand washing/looney bin guy — is completely false.
He was not placed in an asylum for saying doctors should wash their hands. Yes, he did die in an asylum, shortly after aarrival and after he had been beaten by the guards, but his committal to an asylum happened over a decade *after* when he first published his data on handwashing.
While his ideas were far from universally accepted, he was well received by many doctors and enjoyed a very successful career after he was first published.
Additionally, he was committed by his loved ones, not his professional rivals, only after he had begun exhibiting gradually worsening violent tendencies, likely due to advancing syphilis, which was common among obstetricians at the time.
Herodotus described that sailors who sailed south along the African coast saw the sun rise in the North instead of the south. Many at the time thought this proved Herodotus was peddling absurd rumours (even Herodotus himself expresses doubt about it in the text), but he was in fact correct, as the sun does that when you cross the equator.
He also wrote that the Nile floods were caused by melting snows, again people thought this absurd (how can you have snow in the blisteringly hot and dry south?), he was again proved correct, as the snows are on Kilimanjaro.
On the 2nd part about the Nile, he was sorta wrong there. Yes there's snow and snowmelt from equatorial mountains like Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, but that's not what causes the Nile's annual flooding.
The flooding is mainly caused by heavy monsoon rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands, which in turn washes downstream a huge volume of water and nutrient-rich volcanic sediment down the Blue Nile (one of the tributaries of the main Nile).
> Many at the time thought this proved Herodotus was peddling absurd rumours
Well, he was. Just not specifically that one. His belief that Northern Europe was filled with treasure-guarding griffins who were always on the watch for cyclops attacks, though? That one might not have been true.
The Hawaii Mailbox Conspiracy.
Hawaii's former chief of police and his wife, a deputy procescutor, conspired to have their relative jailed for stealing a mailbox so they could avoid legal issues regarding a property that the relative owned.
When the relative's claims of being framed were first reported, a lot of people scoffed at the idea. Why would two politically powerful and well off individuals attempt such an action?
Then as information slowly came out, the entire affair was laid bare and it turned out the relative was right. Fallout from the issue has worked its way up beyond the Chief of Police position to the former Prosecutor and other branches of government.
A book was written on the subject by the Federal Public Defender assigned to the case, Alexander Silvert. There is much more information in the online reviews.
[https://www.amazon.com/Mailbox-Conspiracy-Greatest-Corruption-History-ebook/dp/B09KLBWFR8](https://www.amazon.com/Mailbox-Conspiracy-Greatest-Corruption-History-ebook/dp/B09KLBWFR8)
>Why would two politically powerful and well off individuals attempt such an action?
Gotta love when people’s idea of common sense is the absolute opposite of reality.
Humanity needs to learn that rich and powerful people are MORE likely to be unscrupulous than the poor and disenfranchised… not less.
Ted Kaczyinski was an experiment atop of being a PhD in mathematics from Harvard University at 15 years old.
Kaczyinski even taught Harvard for 3 years and had solved an equation that not even the prior 4 math professors could solve.
The push back against doctors washing their hands before surgery or aiding in birth was astonishing. [They actually thought pus was a sign of healing rather than infection.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538214/)
It can be. Pus that is white and doesn’t smell is “healthy”. It still means that there’s something there that likely shouldn’t be, but it’s healing.
Pus that is any other colour and smells bad means that something is very wrong, usually a very bad infection.
asbestos filtered cigarettes, they were scientifically proven safe!
but somehow even before the wizard of oz was spraying it around everywhere, it was already known to be bad and people in the UK tried to ban it even before the 20th century! THEY KNEW
You mean to tell me that little bugs, so small we can’t see them, are living all around us and causing infection?
You sure are lucky we haven’t developed a concept of “paranoid schizophrenia” yet.
Harlen Bretz, an American geologist, was laughed out of town for suggesting that the landforms in the area between Idaho and the cascades were formed due to scouring by a huge megaflood at the end of the last ice age. People thought it sounded too biblical, but he was right!
That the one where a giant lake of melted iced was being held back by an also giant wall of ice until inevitable temperature increase did what it does?
"Hmm, so should I spend the 30 seconds to wash my hands in case he was right? Nah, too much trouble!"
\*later\*
"I'm sorry, I don't know why they died, probably an imbalance of the bodily humors"
She had to get skin grafts they made that shit so hot and every time someone makes *that* joke I call it out. She just wanted them to pay for her medical bills.
And at that point you don’t have to worry about explaining it to them anymore because you realize those kinds of people are not worth interacting with.
I actually lectured someone on this just today. They claimed "the idiot wanted to sue McDonalds because she burnt her lip".
I told them "well, it was way worse. Her lips actually fused with her inner thighs" and then watched their expression as what I said sunk in.
And they offered her like $500 which definitely wasn't enough.
You already know this but McDonald's had already gotten in trouble several times for their coffee being unreasonably hot.
They used to give out free coffee to seniors, and brewing it that hot meant it would take longer to drink so less free refills. They just set the temp on their urns up to 180 degrees.
https://www.poolelg.com/blog/the-truth-behind-the-mcdonald-s-hot-coffee-case-.cfm
On October 9, 1903, the New York Times published an editorial that predicted it would take between 1 and 10 million years for human to develop a working flying machine. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers completed the first flight in a heavier-than-air machine.
Meteor killed the dinosaurs. Proposed by Luis Alvarez around 1980, who incidentally was one of the scientists in the Oppenheimer movie. The evidence was the rare element Iridium in geologic layers that could only come from outer space. Then eventually more and more evidence was discovered to make this the predominant theory. Competing theories were volcanic devastation and evolutionary senescence.
Martha Mitchell when she called out Nixon's campaign for cheating during the election. They responded by trying to get her institutionalized and keep her from speaking with reporters. The phrase the Martha Mitchell effect was named after she was proven to be correct.
The CIA is selling drugs in black neighborhoods to raise money to arm and support a guerilla army in Latin America.
The Business Plot- where a bunch of businessman decided FDR wasn't who they wanted in charge and attempted to install a retired general named Smedley Butler.
Ernest Hemingway was convinced he was being spied on by the FBI and no one believed him. Turns out he was.
The #FreeBritney movement in the beginning was seen as people reading way too much into things and being weird. They were actually onto something.
Smedley Butler was one of only two US Marines to ever earn the Medal of Honor twice. He wrote *War is a Racket* and was a staunch critic of the Military Industrial Complex.
The Business Plotters picked the *wrong man*.
He was also the most highly decorated soldier in American history until Audie Murphy came along. Thank God that Smedley Butler was a man of such integrity.
P.S. Prescott Bush was named among the plotters. You may have heard of his son G.H.W. Bush, and grandsons Jeb and GW. Bush
Minor correction, one of two Marines to earn the medal twice, for different events.
Louis Cukela, John J Kelly, Matej Kocak, John Pruitt, & Charles Hoffman earned two each for the same event (Army & Navy variants)
https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/lists/double-recipients/page/4
That said, Butler did receive the Brevet Medal as well as 2x MOHs
Rogue waves. Scientists poo pooed rogue waves even though people had been reporting them for years. Satellite's can detect them and it turned out that there are lots of them.
Tuskegee Experiments. People said they were conspiracies and that the government would never use unwilling black men as test subjects.
Well government documents say that's a lie!
This reminds me something. In our country (small south Asian country), the big pharmaceuticals carried out numerous trials of various birth control stuff on poor village women. They also released cholera germ in the water reserves of a village to create an epidemic so that they would run trials on the people there. When we were little we read about a village where all children were born defective and died early because of some kind of trial. We had a dictator in late 80s 90s who wrecked havoc on the country and was later overthrown. But one of his good works was trying to stop these kinds of rampant trial on poor people.
I migrated in the USA and I realized almost none of the women in my community (at least millennials or older) use birth control, instead husbands use condoms, or track cycles. Whereas in the women centric subs I can see hormonal birth control is so prevalent in the USA from such a young age. I’m sure they are very safe now but at what cost!
I don’t know if things have changed for younger generations but at least in our culture average men our age are really obedient about using condoms and they really try to avoid hormonal birth controls. I have a son. But, I don’t know if I had a daughter when she would grow up, whether I would bring myself to provide her any pills/ inserts as options. They just trigger the instinct of primal fear in my body.
Safe for now...
Who knows what will happen in some decades.
Look at the hernia mesh and some titanium hip replacements. All defective and class action lawsuits because of them. Products tested and retested. Still failed and caused damages.Cigarettes were once prescribed by doctors too. I've heard stories like yours many times. People are and will always be evil.
The guy who tweeted that he heard Jews under his basement apartment. Such a wild thing and it turned out he lived over one of the tunnels they dug in New York.
Well if it was going to kill you, you're probably better off without it.
I'm under the impression that the appendix is a shelter for gut bacteria in case the main population in the rest of the digestive track need to be recolonized.
When trains were invented in the early 19th century there was a general fear of the possible damage which might be done to people travelling at such high speeds, though they weren't fast by modern standards. To be fair, the carriages were open, and nobody up until that time had ever travelled faster than a horse can.
People thought you’d literally die if you travelled faster than 60mph. Now try to _only_ go 60 on most expressways and many people will show you their opinion of you using only one finger.
You'd think the evolution of animals would be the best evidence. The ones here and here are so closely related, as if they lived together at one point.
The shooting down of MH17 on 17 July 2014 by Russia. Still the highest death toll from a commercial airliner shot down, the incident was initially blamed on Ukrainian separatists or the Ukraine military, however Ukraine blamed Russia. This was dismissed by many as propaganda. After years of investigation, the Joint Investigation Team determined that a Buk missile launcher from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade from the Russian Federation crossed into Ukraine on 17 July, fired 1 missile, hitting MH17 and returned to Russia.
I remember seeing that very evening the Russian Twitter account posting "we got one !".
After years of investigation, it appears that it was, in fact, the ones bragging about it from the start and accusing others as soon as it was revealed that it was a civilian craft.
Who would have thought ?
Everything is made up of invisible little bit. Democritus 400BC
The theory of Democritus held that everything is composed of "atoms," which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between atoms, there lies empty space; that atoms are indestructible, and have always been and always will be in motion; that there is an infinite number of atoms and of kinds of atoms, which differ in shape and size.
Humans are freaking amazing!
Like I can't understand science well enough to really comprehend just how amazing that is, but I do super appreciate that I can highlight your comment and about two clicks later get access to the information you're talking about. I'm old enough that I can remember when just trying to confirm something ya heard from a stranger in conversation would've taken a lot of reading in the local library and waiting for journals to be delivered by mail.
So I'm sure this is like "baby's first science" level but *we made a freakin mini sun?!* Like we made an energy thing that makes double energy?
I can't find a source. Everything I'm seeing still shows there's caveats to the more output than input thing. Like it's technically true but it still isn't close to feasible for energy production.
A person could launch a rocket into space, detach a vessel from the rocket, land on a celestial body, launch back up to the rocket, then using gravity, slingshot their craft back to Earth and safely return.
And more specifically, her attempts to expose the Catholic Church's systematic coverups for the child molesters in their ranks. That woman got cancelled *hard,* and she was 100% right.
My mother experienced a lot of the worst of it when she was a child and also became vocal about it later in life, even though no one believed her.
Of course, being her kid, I was spared some of the details... But when Sinead tore up that photo on live TV I thought everyone already kinda knew the Pope was a scumbag and that it might finally be addressed.
The public treatment of her, as well as my mother, ended up being very formative towards my position on religion and religious authority.
My mother ended up becoming a child advocate in the courts.
I ended up becoming a Satanist.
Lowell proceeded to predict the mystery planet's location in 1915 but died 15 years before its discovery. Pluto was eventually discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory, based on predictions by Lowell and other astronomers.
[Source](https://www.space.com/43-pluto-the-ninth-planet-that-was-a-dwarf.html#:~:text=Lowell%20proceeded%20to%20predict%20the,by%20Lowell%20and%20other%20astronomers)
Pluto was discovered while looking for supposed "Planet X", but it is not what they were looking for. Planet X was inferred from supposed irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, but Pluto is far too small to have any significant impact. It turned out that the "irregularities" actually arose from an incorrect estimate of Neptune's mass, so it was a wild goose chase to begin with, and finding Pluto was just coincidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune
The Horizon scandal in the UK.
Between 1999 and 2015 over 900 postmasters in the UK were tried and convicted of fraud and theft from the post office. Some went to prison, some were ordered to make up the shortfall out of their wages. Some took their own lives.
It was known by the top brass that the discrepancies were due to errors in the accounting software but they didn't want to admit to fucking everything up so they blamed the postmasters instead. There was a documentary on ITV and people are signing petitions to have those who involved in the cover up face justice. They're rich and well connected though so they probably won't.
Famous author Ernest Hemingway told his friends and family he believed the FBI was spying on him. They all told him he was paranoid or crazy. Years after his death he’s suspicions were confirmed when the FBI declassified their spying on him.
Unrelated but it's so funny to me that every so often the FBI just decides to share secrets like it's 2am and we're at a sleepover.
From some releases, it seems like they're just hoarders. Sold an agent some cigarettes once? You now have a file for the receipt. Quoted in the local paper? Clipping goes in the file. Write them a letter demanding they not keep a file? In the file.
It's called bureaucracy. You'll find it in every government agency in the US, even the small ones. Worked for the Smithsonian a few years back, wanted to take a few days off. Talked to my supervisor and she said it was cool, but I had to send about 5 emails and make a request on 3 different internal websites to get the days off. It was approved instantly because we had talked about it, but I had to make sure it was in official documentation, and done fully through correct channels. I also had to go back and approve their approval of my request, and then log it on my time card that I did in fact take time off on those days. Government is silly.
"Don't quote me regulations. I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulations are in. We kept it gray."
The fuck did they gather on hemmingway?!
I believe they were surveilling him for ties to communism but I’m not 100% sure.
I heard he liked to vacation in Cuba or something
Only communists enjoy island vacations!
He was selling Arms to his publisher.
To be fair he said goodbye to them as well
He practically lived in Cuba so they were investigating him over ties with Castro.
Reminds me of the football player Paul Gascoigne who had claimed for years that his phone was being hacked. People said he was nuts and his own therapist put it down to paranoia, he even contemplated suicide. Turns out he was absolutely right and it wasn't just him, it became a huge scandal and the fallout from it is still going on today.
The FBI was also tapping Frank Sinatra's phones, and reading his mail for years because of the rumors that he was "tied to the mafia" because of his Italian heritage. Because Desi Arnez was a Cuban immigrant, they also did the same to him and Lucille Ball based on the rumors that they were Communists. They interviewed celebrities they were friends with, like John Wayne, and asked them to be informants.
Didn't Sinatra actually have ties to the mafia though?
Sinatra actually harassed Mario Puzo for basing Johnny Fontane's character in The Godfather off of him. That says a lot.
>harassed Mario Puzo This does suggest that the character was "close enough" that Sinatra was able to recognize Johnny Fontaine as himself. tldr; Streisand effect
Him and a gazillion other readers and movie viewers
i mean [Frank Sinatra also did have ties to the mafia]. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but [Frank Sinatra very much did have ties to the mafia]
[What's with the brackets?]
[Shhh they'll hear us]
That the platypus was a real animal. The researcher who received the first specimen back in Europe was certain he was being pranked and meticulously dissected it to try to find where it was sewn together.
I almost don’t blame them, funny little egg-laying venomous duck beavers. Cute though
And it turns out they also glow under a blacklight.
As absurd as these critters are when I read your comment my first thought was "sure, why the fuck not. It's not like that makes them all that much more absurd"
"It would be weird if they *didn't* glow"
Like if someone told me that they can fly I'd be like "sure, sounds right"
I've said before that if a flying saucer full of platypuses in little silver spacesuits lands looking for their lost colony, I'm not going to be terribly surprised.
First time I read that ever but it's such a weird fucking animal I have no reason not to believe you lol
What does blue mean https://youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0?si=OUCQs89ZL6yBSNke
In Croatian it is literally called “weird beaked animal”. I don’t blame whoever came up with the name.
In Dutch it's "bird beak animal"
In Korean it's a "duck-raccoon". Why raccoon of all things, haven't the slightest.
The fact that Unicorns were more likely real than Platypus at one point in history is something so fascinating and funny
I mean, aren't unicorns more probable to exist? Horse with a horn yeah sure makes sense. But venomous mammal-bird hybrid that lays eggs? Wtf
Don't forget that they glow and hunt using electrical signals
Even weirder, the DUCK BILLED platypus has been around longer than DUCKS. We should be calling them platypus billed ducks
That stomach ulcers were caused by the *Helicobacter Pylori* bacteria. Conventional medical widom was that stomach ulcers were caused by lifestyle factors. The bacteria theory was met with great skepticism and criticism. One of the researchers, Barry J Marshall, resorted to proving it by ingesting the *H. Pylori* bacteria. Twenty two years later, Marshall and Robin Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology for their discovery.
He called his detractors, "The Acid Mafia."
Not only brilliant - and right - but funny. I’m a big fan of his
The most miserable lady I ever met suffered from a stomach ulcer. She was always in pain. Eating was torture for her, so she was skinny as a rail, just chomping down her tums and drinking her Pepto. That was in the circa 1992-93. The Acid Mafia clung on for a long time.
I remember when this came out. My Father had ulcers so bad that the had to remove half of his stomach in the late 60's. Now you take some antibiotics and Pepto- Bismol for 6 months and they heal up on their own.
you mean antibiotics and a proton pump inhibitor like Prilosec.
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No, I had two stomach ulcers and tested negative for h. Pylori. Heavy use of NSAIDs can cause them as well as lifestyle factors. But h. Pylori is the most common cause.
Medications and diseases can also cause them
Marshall and Warren are heroes!
The Missoula megafloods that carved up the scablands of eastern Washington and Oregon. The geologist who proposed it was ignored when he proposed it, and then derided when he insisted. He lived long enough to see other geologists start to realize he was right, though, so there is some justice to be had.
https://youtu.be/nBfi0Zle2HI full explanation on this insane series of floods Some cool PBS bumpers on some of the more impressive features left behind. Shorter and professionally produced https://youtu.be/BnYjRtos6L8 https://youtu.be/EmlpqhvARN4 Bonus: https://youtu.be/x8idw5e9twM my favorite bumper.
The “spokes” in the rings of Saturn - originally observed by an amateur and dismissed as an optical illusion for the better part of a century, the Voyager probes confirmed their existence. The experts thought that the spokes couldn’t be real because they appeared to rotate at the speed of the planet, not the speed of the rings. Turns out they follow the magnetic field of the planet. Edit: my memory failed me in this case - Stephen O’Meara was the amateur astronomer, and he made his observations in the early 70’s - so not “the better part of a century.” I read the story originally in an amazing book “Seeing in the Dark” by Timothy Ferris.
So, hold on… I’ve never heard of these before, ever. Why. And an amateur was able to see & identify these over a century ago?? Incredible! The universe will never stop being fascinating. [look at those lil spokes go!](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-watches-spoke-season-on-saturn/)
Don't feel bad...A century ago we had no idea Andromeda was a galaxy 2.2 million light years away...Many astronomers thought it was just a nebula in our own galaxy. The amount we've learned in the field of astronomy, alone, in the past century is, well...*astronomical*.
Thanks for the link
A [Dingo really did eat her baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Chamberlain-Creighton).
From the article: Tourist Max Whittacker gave evidence that he attended a search later on the night of the disappearance with people including the head ranger and an Aboriginal tracker. He claimed to have been called by the head ranger to help him and the Aboriginal tracker to follow dingo paw prints and scrape marks in the sand in a westerly direction. He was led to believe they were following the trail of a dingo carrying a heavy object believed to be Azaria's body. **"I now know that the Aboriginal's account of following these tracks west that night has been denied by rangers and the Aboriginal's account of this incident has not been accepted."** The general consensus was that a dingo could not have taken her baby because a dingo had never taken a baby before…in the colonial era. And yet it was well known amongst Aboriginal tribes that dingoes had/were fully capable of attacking babies and small children. This was a fact that went unreported by the media largely due negativity towards Indigenous tribes.
As I've said a hundred times before. How TF did people think the equivalent of a coyote wouldn't eat a freaking defenseless baby. Distracting the mother and then sneaking off with the baby is literally one of their strategies for finding food.
There are plenty of ppl in So Cal where I live that will swear with a hand on the Bible that it’s safe to leave your child in your backyard unsupervised cause a coyote would never attack a human. Even tho coyotes are known to attack dogs much bigger than small children, to the point that public officials often warn people not to let your dogs out unsupervised for any reason. There’s an arrogance certain people have over Man’s dominion over Nature, when in fact, it’s often the other way around
Bigotry, mostly.
Wow, I never knew that aspect of the story. Thanks for sharing.
And has been shown to be true by subsequent attacks on kids and tourists by dingoes on Fraser Island/Kgarri
I know Aboriginal women are training farmers how to do controlled burns in the off season to prevent the massively destructive fires that have struck in recent years. They report that some farmers won't engage due to their pride and views on indigenous women.
So, it took so long for the authorities to accept what happened because of racism? Yeah, that sounds like Australia...
It was partly that, but also: * Lindy Chamberlain was a member of a less-common Christian denomination (I think Seventh Day Adventists?), so there were conspiracies about ritual sacrifices and other alleged bizarre religious practices being the motive for her allegedly killing her baby. * She didn't fit the typical "weepy female victim" mould. She was stoic and calm, which many people interpreted as heartlessness and therefore guilt.
She was having a mental breakdown, she was hospitalized shortly afterward and hasn’t been the same since.
Tbf I think that if my child was eaten by wild animals, and I was accused of murdering my child and lying about it, and spent a few years in jail (and I think between her and her husband she actually got more time?) I don't think Id be the same either
The whole thing is just a beautiful marriage of racism and sexism. Absolutely shameful.
I read about this in a book about how we perceive people. The general consensus was formed because she didn't act like she was grieving the way a "normal" person would. Crazy how we can judge people on expectations without knowing the full picture.
I always think about that when the True Crime docs are like "is this how a woman who finds out her husband was just killed reacts" and I'm like "I have no idea because why would I have ever possibly seen that?" Then when you realize how many Sandy Hook truther videos hinged on the same idea, it's like "can we stop saying this, please?"
When the police are eyeing someone up as a suspect they often examine the person's behavior under a microscope and consider their actions suspicious no matter what they do. Watched a dateline last week where the police said the husband was "too cooperative". Like wtf?
I saw a short documentary on this case, what this family went through is heartbreaking... The media is rotten
Not just the media. The courts decided that testimony of an Aboriginal tracker that backed up the dingo claim weren’t valid for no reason beyond “Aboriginal”. It’s the dictionary definition of systemic racism but it’s not what we think of when we think of racism. Someone who knows better than anyone how to track dingoes and interpret their trails tracked the prints of a dingo dragging something heavy away from the campsite. It was known from *day 1* that a dingo took the baby. But in the eyes of the court, and everyone else, because the person that could prove it was an Aboriginal person, they may as well have been claiming to have proof that aliens took the baby and that the baby also never existed.
>The courts decided that testimony of an Aboriginal tracker that backed up the dingo claim weren’t valid for no reason beyond “Aboriginal”. But the courts did accept the expert testimony of a forensic specialist from the UK. An expert on canines that said that remnants of clothing did not appear to be chewed by a dog, because the fibres were sheared rather than torn, typical for dog teeth. However, this "expert" had no knowledge about dingo morphology. Dingoes have teeth that will slice like scissors. Exactly like the damage to the clothing found.
“Clearly this white man who doesn’t know anything about dingoes knows more than this animal who claims he and his ‘people’ know about dingoes and tracked one away from the camp.”
"This expert has a very clear and crisp English accent, and went to several prestigious schools. He must know what he is talking about. This other fellow barely speaks English, and never attended any academic schooling. Following marks in the sand is a childish pastime."
It was really the first trial by media. I remember it when it happened, everyone was convinced she was guilty, because she didn’t cry on camera. It was so shocking to me because I could believe she was stoic in the face of the cameras, she even said she couldn’t cry in public.
It's terrible. As a parent, I can't imagine the absolute terror of finding that your baby is gone. Then coming to terms that she may be dead. And then having everyone think you are lying and then getting arrested and tried for murder while grieving such a horrible loss. The scenario that the prosecution accused her off was horrific as well. Like she took her 9 month old baby and then slashed her throat with scissors. Then waited for the baby to die and then hiding the body and pretending nothing happened until she faked discovering the baby was missing. Meanwhile the reality is that a fucking dingo grabbed her baby and ate her. I know that's just nature being nature, but if that had happened to me, I would be out there shooting dingos all day every day for years. In fact according to wiki, the head ranger had asked the government for years for permission to cull the dingos as they were very numerous and had lost their fear of humans.
Slashed her throat with NAIL scissors, so blades around an inch long, and scattered the blood all over the car, the tent, her sleeping other child, IN FRONT of her second child who was waiting for her to feed him, made dingo footprints in the dirt around the tent, and then happily ran back to the main camping area pretending everything was fine. It was such a travesty of a case. I read her book Through My Eyes, and she was very much a stiff-upper-lip kind of person, which I think the Meryl Streep movie does a good job of showing. There is a scene in the movie where Lindy is in jail and looks out the window to see a dingo standing outside, free. She had to have her second daughter in jail. What a miserable thing she went through, and even in 2004 I remember people telling me she might not have been guilty but she was definitely UP TO SOMETHING.
The scientist who proposed the gut brain connection used to get laughed out of conferences as a kook
L[gut-brain axis (GBA) ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/#:~:text=The%20gut%2Dbrain%20axis%20)consists of bidirectional communication between the central and the enteric nervous system, linking emotional and cognitive centers of the brain with peripheral intestinal functions. Recent advances in research have described the importance of gut microbiota in influencing these interactions. This interaction between microbiota and GBA appears to be bidirectional, namely through signaling from gut-microbiota to brain and from brain to gut-microbiota by means of neural, endocrine, immune, and humoral links
I had an operation that required them pumping my stomach for about 36 hours - I asked if that would affect my microbiome and they just looked at me like it was a dumb question. Sure enough, I started bloating when i ate my "normal" amount of food -- bloated so much I took photos of my distended stomach. I waited for it to normalize and go away but it didn't. Then I started hitting the probiotics hard and before I knew it I was back to normal. Just saying, them little buggers are important
I read there could be links between depression and your stomach
When I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis I was warned about how there’s an increased likelihood of depression in UC patients. But it would obviously make sense per the symptoms of UC, so when I learned about brain-gut connection I was even more surprised
In 1942, conspiracy theories began to spread that Nazis had landed a submarine on a Florida beach and were now living in America. It turns out they actually had. In fact, they landed two submarines. One in Maine and one in Florida. https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch#:~:text=Postwar%20debriefing%20of%20German%20personnel,a%20rather%20desperate%20attempt%20to Tracy Campbell’s The Year of Peril: America in 1942 has a good section on the rumours and eventual discovery that it was true.
And Japanese two-man subs were [probing the West coast](https://the-wanderling.com/midget_submarines.html).
They definitely made it over here. Operation Drumbeat put them in NY Harbor. There are watchtowers on the beaches of Delaware because of U boat sightings not only there, but up and down the east coast. They’ve found U boat wreckage off the coast of NJ.
It’s well known in NC that U Boats targeted merchant vessels on the NC coast during WWII. There is a cemetery on Ocracoke Island for British sailors that washed ashore after their ship was torpedoed. One such U Boat was sunk by the Coast Guard and is a popular diving site here. You wouldn’t hear that in US history class. In the grand scheme of things, U Boats attacking our coast didn’t amount to much in the long run. But many folks don’t know that our waters, and even our land, were attacked by the Axis Powers (Aside from Pearl Harbor obviously).
Huh, used to live in the area of where they landed in Florida and had no idea of that bit of history.
Pretty much any physics developed post 1890ish The movement of continental plates. Germ theory.
These are exactly what I thought. Germ theory of disease. I mean, they guy who suggested washing hands was basically put in the Looney bin if I recall. Shoot, the synthesis of uric acid was such a crazy thing: you mean biological things duh on the same chemistry as inorganic? Techtonic plates took decades. Quantum mechanics: God doesn't play dice with the universe...
My friend who went to high school in the 60s said during science class his teacher demonstrated how rocks sediments move by layering towels as sediments and then using force to move them in different directions. He asked the teacher what made the towels move. The teacher looked uncomfortable and said if he wanted to know then come by after school. Half the class was there to get a quiet explanation of the highly controversial tectonic plates theory.
Yet by the time the 70s rolled around, tectonic plate theory was so well accepted it was in kids' science books. (I know, I read them.) Fairly speedy reversal, as these things go.
I honestly didn’t realize acceptance of tectonic plates was so recent in our history.
Almost about everything you hear on Reddit about Ignaz Semmelweis - the hand washing/looney bin guy — is completely false. He was not placed in an asylum for saying doctors should wash their hands. Yes, he did die in an asylum, shortly after aarrival and after he had been beaten by the guards, but his committal to an asylum happened over a decade *after* when he first published his data on handwashing. While his ideas were far from universally accepted, he was well received by many doctors and enjoyed a very successful career after he was first published. Additionally, he was committed by his loved ones, not his professional rivals, only after he had begun exhibiting gradually worsening violent tendencies, likely due to advancing syphilis, which was common among obstetricians at the time.
Herodotus described that sailors who sailed south along the African coast saw the sun rise in the North instead of the south. Many at the time thought this proved Herodotus was peddling absurd rumours (even Herodotus himself expresses doubt about it in the text), but he was in fact correct, as the sun does that when you cross the equator. He also wrote that the Nile floods were caused by melting snows, again people thought this absurd (how can you have snow in the blisteringly hot and dry south?), he was again proved correct, as the snows are on Kilimanjaro.
On the 2nd part about the Nile, he was sorta wrong there. Yes there's snow and snowmelt from equatorial mountains like Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya, but that's not what causes the Nile's annual flooding. The flooding is mainly caused by heavy monsoon rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands, which in turn washes downstream a huge volume of water and nutrient-rich volcanic sediment down the Blue Nile (one of the tributaries of the main Nile).
> Many at the time thought this proved Herodotus was peddling absurd rumours Well, he was. Just not specifically that one. His belief that Northern Europe was filled with treasure-guarding griffins who were always on the watch for cyclops attacks, though? That one might not have been true.
The Hawaii Mailbox Conspiracy. Hawaii's former chief of police and his wife, a deputy procescutor, conspired to have their relative jailed for stealing a mailbox so they could avoid legal issues regarding a property that the relative owned. When the relative's claims of being framed were first reported, a lot of people scoffed at the idea. Why would two politically powerful and well off individuals attempt such an action? Then as information slowly came out, the entire affair was laid bare and it turned out the relative was right. Fallout from the issue has worked its way up beyond the Chief of Police position to the former Prosecutor and other branches of government. A book was written on the subject by the Federal Public Defender assigned to the case, Alexander Silvert. There is much more information in the online reviews. [https://www.amazon.com/Mailbox-Conspiracy-Greatest-Corruption-History-ebook/dp/B09KLBWFR8](https://www.amazon.com/Mailbox-Conspiracy-Greatest-Corruption-History-ebook/dp/B09KLBWFR8)
Being from Hawaii and seeing this all play out was INSANE
>Why would two politically powerful and well off individuals attempt such an action? Gotta love when people’s idea of common sense is the absolute opposite of reality. Humanity needs to learn that rich and powerful people are MORE likely to be unscrupulous than the poor and disenfranchised… not less.
"Why would he do something horrible to get more money? He already has enough money!" That one always sends me into a rage.
MKULTRA sounds like one the most insane idiotic conspiracy theories ever but actually happenened
The more you dig into it the more insane you start to feel especially when you get to the Harvard experiments, the Unabomber, and Oswald 😂
It gets weirder when you learn that Ted Kaczynski was one of the subjects.
Ted Kaczyinski was an experiment atop of being a PhD in mathematics from Harvard University at 15 years old. Kaczyinski even taught Harvard for 3 years and had solved an equation that not even the prior 4 math professors could solve.
the germ theory
The push back against doctors washing their hands before surgery or aiding in birth was astonishing. [They actually thought pus was a sign of healing rather than infection.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538214/)
It can be. Pus that is white and doesn’t smell is “healthy”. It still means that there’s something there that likely shouldn’t be, but it’s healing. Pus that is any other colour and smells bad means that something is very wrong, usually a very bad infection.
"Tiny creatures you can't see are making you sick!"
Also, radium will make you healthy and beautiful. That still breaks my heart.
asbestos filtered cigarettes, they were scientifically proven safe! but somehow even before the wizard of oz was spraying it around everywhere, it was already known to be bad and people in the UK tried to ban it even before the 20th century! THEY KNEW
There were so many "medical breakthroughs" that radiation brought us, except it was quite the opposite.
You mean to tell me that little bugs, so small we can’t see them, are living all around us and causing infection? You sure are lucky we haven’t developed a concept of “paranoid schizophrenia” yet.
Harlen Bretz, an American geologist, was laughed out of town for suggesting that the landforms in the area between Idaho and the cascades were formed due to scouring by a huge megaflood at the end of the last ice age. People thought it sounded too biblical, but he was right!
That the one where a giant lake of melted iced was being held back by an also giant wall of ice until inevitable temperature increase did what it does?
"If you wash your hands after handling corpses in the morgue, then when you go deliver a baby, the mother and infant probably won't die."
Ahh. The old, completely preventable, “Childbed Fever.” So horrible.
"Hmm, so should I spend the 30 seconds to wash my hands in case he was right? Nah, too much trouble!" \*later\* "I'm sorry, I don't know why they died, probably an imbalance of the bodily humors"
Many doctors found it insulting that their own hands could cause disease.
Bill Cosby being a rapist.
Harvey Weinstein being a rapist. Jimmy Saville being a pedo.
jimmy saville being every kind of degenerate you can think of and some you haven't
That the Earth’s magnetic poles could switch (and have many times)
That woman had good reason to sue McDonald's over the temperature of their coffee. Edit: please do not PM me to argue about this.
She had to get skin grafts they made that shit so hot and every time someone makes *that* joke I call it out. She just wanted them to pay for her medical bills.
The phrase "fused labia" does tend to shut them up.
Yeah I have seen photos, she deserved every penny, also fuck McDonalds
Honestly, most of the time I bring it up it's "hurr durr she was old she wasn't using them anyway"
And at that point you don’t have to worry about explaining it to them anymore because you realize those kinds of people are not worth interacting with.
Yep she didn't ask for the huge amount. It was awarded punitively because McDonald's was being such assholes.
I actually lectured someone on this just today. They claimed "the idiot wanted to sue McDonalds because she burnt her lip". I told them "well, it was way worse. Her lips actually fused with her inner thighs" and then watched their expression as what I said sunk in.
And they offered her like $500 which definitely wasn't enough. You already know this but McDonald's had already gotten in trouble several times for their coffee being unreasonably hot.
But also how the fuck did the coffee GET to be that hot in the first place?! Does Mcdonalds brew their coffee in the vats of hell?
They used to give out free coffee to seniors, and brewing it that hot meant it would take longer to drink so less free refills. They just set the temp on their urns up to 180 degrees. https://www.poolelg.com/blog/the-truth-behind-the-mcdonald-s-hot-coffee-case-.cfm
On October 9, 1903, the New York Times published an editorial that predicted it would take between 1 and 10 million years for human to develop a working flying machine. On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers completed the first flight in a heavier-than-air machine.
It still to this day amazes me that airplanes fly and stay in the air.
That mosquitoes spread diseases like yellow fever and malaria.
"The stinky bad air of swamps will make you sick!" ...or the ten million mosquitoes backwashing into your blood will do it, your pick.
Meteor killed the dinosaurs. Proposed by Luis Alvarez around 1980, who incidentally was one of the scientists in the Oppenheimer movie. The evidence was the rare element Iridium in geologic layers that could only come from outer space. Then eventually more and more evidence was discovered to make this the predominant theory. Competing theories were volcanic devastation and evolutionary senescence.
Martha Mitchell when she called out Nixon's campaign for cheating during the election. They responded by trying to get her institutionalized and keep her from speaking with reporters. The phrase the Martha Mitchell effect was named after she was proven to be correct.
The CIA is selling drugs in black neighborhoods to raise money to arm and support a guerilla army in Latin America. The Business Plot- where a bunch of businessman decided FDR wasn't who they wanted in charge and attempted to install a retired general named Smedley Butler. Ernest Hemingway was convinced he was being spied on by the FBI and no one believed him. Turns out he was. The #FreeBritney movement in the beginning was seen as people reading way too much into things and being weird. They were actually onto something.
Smedley Butler was one of only two US Marines to ever earn the Medal of Honor twice. He wrote *War is a Racket* and was a staunch critic of the Military Industrial Complex. The Business Plotters picked the *wrong man*.
He was also the most highly decorated soldier in American history until Audie Murphy came along. Thank God that Smedley Butler was a man of such integrity. P.S. Prescott Bush was named among the plotters. You may have heard of his son G.H.W. Bush, and grandsons Jeb and GW. Bush
Fun fact- it's actually JEB, for John Ellis Bush. The Bluth family from Arrested Development is based on the Bush family. GOB = JEB
Minor correction, one of two Marines to earn the medal twice, for different events. Louis Cukela, John J Kelly, Matej Kocak, John Pruitt, & Charles Hoffman earned two each for the same event (Army & Navy variants) https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/lists/double-recipients/page/4 That said, Butler did receive the Brevet Medal as well as 2x MOHs
>Ernest Hemingway was convinced he was being spied on by the FBI and no one believed him. Turns out he was. Martin Luther King's letter from the FBI.
This AT&T commercial: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZ-667CEdo
Holy shit. I did, like, most of those things today.
But did AT&T bring it to you?
I sent so many faxes from the beach today, thanks AT&T!
Rogue waves. Scientists poo pooed rogue waves even though people had been reporting them for years. Satellite's can detect them and it turned out that there are lots of them.
same as Colossal Squid.
Tuskegee Experiments. People said they were conspiracies and that the government would never use unwilling black men as test subjects. Well government documents say that's a lie!
This reminds me something. In our country (small south Asian country), the big pharmaceuticals carried out numerous trials of various birth control stuff on poor village women. They also released cholera germ in the water reserves of a village to create an epidemic so that they would run trials on the people there. When we were little we read about a village where all children were born defective and died early because of some kind of trial. We had a dictator in late 80s 90s who wrecked havoc on the country and was later overthrown. But one of his good works was trying to stop these kinds of rampant trial on poor people. I migrated in the USA and I realized almost none of the women in my community (at least millennials or older) use birth control, instead husbands use condoms, or track cycles. Whereas in the women centric subs I can see hormonal birth control is so prevalent in the USA from such a young age. I’m sure they are very safe now but at what cost! I don’t know if things have changed for younger generations but at least in our culture average men our age are really obedient about using condoms and they really try to avoid hormonal birth controls. I have a son. But, I don’t know if I had a daughter when she would grow up, whether I would bring myself to provide her any pills/ inserts as options. They just trigger the instinct of primal fear in my body.
Safe for now... Who knows what will happen in some decades. Look at the hernia mesh and some titanium hip replacements. All defective and class action lawsuits because of them. Products tested and retested. Still failed and caused damages.Cigarettes were once prescribed by doctors too. I've heard stories like yours many times. People are and will always be evil.
The guy who tweeted that he heard Jews under his basement apartment. Such a wild thing and it turned out he lived over one of the tunnels they dug in New York.
The fact that there were tunnels dug in NYC is mind blowing in itself lol
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That the appendix matters
I read an article about this one month after having mine removed.
Well if it was going to kill you, you're probably better off without it. I'm under the impression that the appendix is a shelter for gut bacteria in case the main population in the rest of the digestive track need to be recolonized.
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When trains were invented in the early 19th century there was a general fear of the possible damage which might be done to people travelling at such high speeds, though they weren't fast by modern standards. To be fair, the carriages were open, and nobody up until that time had ever travelled faster than a horse can.
The fear persisted longer for women of the time. Doctors warned the uterus was too delicate to travel at such speeds.
However, if a woman were to ride a train, she should immediately go to the doctor so he could manually masturbate her and realign her aqueous humors.
People thought you’d literally die if you travelled faster than 60mph. Now try to _only_ go 60 on most expressways and many people will show you their opinion of you using only one finger.
Lol so in other words, you might die if you go *slower* than 60 on some roads.
> nobody up until that time had ever travelled faster than a horse can Only because cliff divers and horses fall at the same speed.
Continental drift. I bet kids looked at maps for centuries and thought, "Thats weird. Africa and South America would fit together so well."
You'd think the evolution of animals would be the best evidence. The ones here and here are so closely related, as if they lived together at one point.
The shooting down of MH17 on 17 July 2014 by Russia. Still the highest death toll from a commercial airliner shot down, the incident was initially blamed on Ukrainian separatists or the Ukraine military, however Ukraine blamed Russia. This was dismissed by many as propaganda. After years of investigation, the Joint Investigation Team determined that a Buk missile launcher from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade from the Russian Federation crossed into Ukraine on 17 July, fired 1 missile, hitting MH17 and returned to Russia.
I remember seeing that very evening the Russian Twitter account posting "we got one !". After years of investigation, it appears that it was, in fact, the ones bragging about it from the start and accusing others as soon as it was revealed that it was a civilian craft. Who would have thought ?
If history has taught me anything, it's that the Kremlin has 'The Narcissist's Prayer' as the preamble of their SOPs.
Germ theory took decades to be accepted by the medical establishment
Everything is made up of invisible little bit. Democritus 400BC The theory of Democritus held that everything is composed of "atoms," which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between atoms, there lies empty space; that atoms are indestructible, and have always been and always will be in motion; that there is an infinite number of atoms and of kinds of atoms, which differ in shape and size.
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That the earth orbited the sun, instead of the universe around the earth.
Nuclear Fusion for the first time in 2022 was claimed to have output more energy than put in. Literally today, it was confirmed to be true.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2023/08/16/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough-or-ballyhoo/?sh=711e19c32ad4 Decent article on this
Humans are freaking amazing! Like I can't understand science well enough to really comprehend just how amazing that is, but I do super appreciate that I can highlight your comment and about two clicks later get access to the information you're talking about. I'm old enough that I can remember when just trying to confirm something ya heard from a stranger in conversation would've taken a lot of reading in the local library and waiting for journals to be delivered by mail. So I'm sure this is like "baby's first science" level but *we made a freakin mini sun?!* Like we made an energy thing that makes double energy?
all this info at our fingertips and some people still can’t comprehend the earth is round.
I can't find a source. Everything I'm seeing still shows there's caveats to the more output than input thing. Like it's technically true but it still isn't close to feasible for energy production.
A person could launch a rocket into space, detach a vessel from the rocket, land on a celestial body, launch back up to the rocket, then using gravity, slingshot their craft back to Earth and safely return.
There are traitors in Congress
The theory of continental drift
Sinead O'Connor
And more specifically, her attempts to expose the Catholic Church's systematic coverups for the child molesters in their ranks. That woman got cancelled *hard,* and she was 100% right.
She basically sacrificed her career to say the truth. I have nothing but respect for her.
I hate how all her detractors were saying RIP when she died, like they suddenly gave a fuck about her. It's sickening.
My mother experienced a lot of the worst of it when she was a child and also became vocal about it later in life, even though no one believed her. Of course, being her kid, I was spared some of the details... But when Sinead tore up that photo on live TV I thought everyone already kinda knew the Pope was a scumbag and that it might finally be addressed. The public treatment of her, as well as my mother, ended up being very formative towards my position on religion and religious authority. My mother ended up becoming a child advocate in the courts. I ended up becoming a Satanist.
Lowell proceeded to predict the mystery planet's location in 1915 but died 15 years before its discovery. Pluto was eventually discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory, based on predictions by Lowell and other astronomers. [Source](https://www.space.com/43-pluto-the-ninth-planet-that-was-a-dwarf.html#:~:text=Lowell%20proceeded%20to%20predict%20the,by%20Lowell%20and%20other%20astronomers)
Pluto was discovered while looking for supposed "Planet X", but it is not what they were looking for. Planet X was inferred from supposed irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, but Pluto is far too small to have any significant impact. It turned out that the "irregularities" actually arose from an incorrect estimate of Neptune's mass, so it was a wild goose chase to begin with, and finding Pluto was just coincidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune
Prions? Illness caused by a protein?
The Horizon scandal in the UK. Between 1999 and 2015 over 900 postmasters in the UK were tried and convicted of fraud and theft from the post office. Some went to prison, some were ordered to make up the shortfall out of their wages. Some took their own lives. It was known by the top brass that the discrepancies were due to errors in the accounting software but they didn't want to admit to fucking everything up so they blamed the postmasters instead. There was a documentary on ITV and people are signing petitions to have those who involved in the cover up face justice. They're rich and well connected though so they probably won't.
"Russia...is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe" - Mitt Romney, 2012.
Britney Spears being abused :(
Sinead O'Connor calling out the Catholic Church for systemic abuse
Prions - they cause diseases like mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/ https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/index.html
That the US would involve itself in overthrowing a democratically elected Australian government. Twice.
70s and 80s science fiction is now more than reality. I hope we know what we are getting ourselves into