20 People Who Were Deemed ‘Crazy’ But Turned Out To Be Right

Robert Whitman-Byrne

People occasionally say or do things that are hardly understandable to those around them. Certain individuals are far ahead of their time. Galileo's assertion that the earth rotates around the sun was ridiculed at the time for a reason. Humans find it challenging to abandon some established, commonly held beliefs. These ideas are, however, occasionally refuted by some eccentric people.
What "crazy" individual in history was right the whole time?" was a recent Reddit question. and many individuals mentioned the names of several well-known ps who were dubbed mad but afterwards proven to be true. To view the solutions, scroll down.
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Source: sagieday

“Rose McGowan was completely ostracized and blacklisted for talking about Weinstein too early.”

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Source: Luke Keil

“Tesla. Edison is still credited with the lightbulb. His last words put it into perspective “All these years that I had spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humiliation””

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Source: Sudden-Lettuce2317

“Clair Patterson-he was made out to be crazy by giant oil companies bc he tested ice cores in the Arctic and pd out that the amount of lead in the atmosphere, the water, and our bodies was extremely high and caused by leaded gasoline. He petitioned Congress for years to make it illegal to add lead to gasoline, but the corporations kept getting him shut down because they used lead as an anti-knock agent for internal combustion engines. Ironically, lead was causing everyone else to go crazy because it is shaped like a neurotransmitter and blocks receptors causing insanity, similarly to what mercury does, and many employees of the oil companies had gone mad. After decades of battling the oil companies, he finally got his way and lead was removed from gasoline. Since then, the amount of lead in the atmosphere and I’m living things has decreased dramatically. Clair Patterson… a f**king hero.
He also created the first truly “clean room.””

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Source: JustAbel

“During the plague in Moscow there was a priest (or something) DIScouraging people kissing the statue of Maria, as to stop the spreading of the virus.
The poor man was burned alive for blasphemy.”

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Source:  Few-Frosting-1398

“Will Rogers a humorist when he invented the term “trickle-down” economics as a joke stating that this type of economy would just make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
And then we actually implemented it and used the term trickle-down. And Will Rogers was right.
The rent has gone though the roof and our salaries have stagnated and we can’t afford “The American Dream” anymore.”

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Source:  carissadraws

“Craig Ferguson having empathy for Britney Spears in his 2007 monologue.”

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Source:  77kloklo77

“Sinead O’Connor – she was vilified for ripping up a photo of the pope to protest child abuse within the Catholic Church. Spoiler alert – the Catholic Church was covering up child abuse.”

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Source:  Rayshon1042

“Stanislav Petrov. Though we don’t see him as crazy, I’m sure his crewmates thought he was. He directly disobeyed Soviet military protocols and prevented a nuclear war.”

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