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Imagine, for a moment, that you have spent more than two decades in painfully laborious research — that you have discovered an incredibly simple, electronic approach to curing literally every disease on the planet caused by viruses and bacteria.
Indeed, it is a discovery that would end the pain and suffering of countless millions and change life on Earth forever.
Certainly, the medical world would rush to embrace you with every imaginable accolade and financial reward imaginable. You would think so, wouldn’t you?
Unfortunately, arguably the greatest medical genius in all recorded history suffered a fate literally the opposite of the foregoing logical scenario. In fact, the history of medicine is replete with stories of genius betrayed by backward thought and jealously, but most pathetically, by greed and money.
In the nineteenth century, Semmelweiss struggled mightily to convince surgeons that it was a good idea to sterilize their instruments and use sterile surgical procedures. Pasteur was ridiculed for years for his theory that germs could cause disease.