“The Semmelweis Reflex”
Have to remember this and use it. If I can figure out how to pronounce the name properly...
“Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that doctors who moved between patients and performed autopsies — and walked straight from the corpses to the delivery room — without washing their hands. He introduced mandatory handwashing with chlorinated lime. The death rate collapsed immediately.
The medical establishment dismissed him and attacked his methods, his tone, his personality — anything but the data, because the data meant that they, the educated men of science, had been killing their own patients for years with their bare hands. That was not something the nineteenth-century medical establishment was prepared to live with. He was removed from his position. His publications were mocked, and he was committed to an asylum, where the guards beat him. He died two weeks later of a wound infection. Sepsis. The very thing he had spent his life trying to stop.”
That’s what the American socialists, communists and the Democrat party can’t wait to do to those who don’t agree with them.
“Sem-ell-vise” if pronounced in German.
“Sem-ell-wice” if pronounced in English.
I prefer the German.