Some researchers think that technological progress is so rapid that we won’t be able to keep up with it soon. But in the past, the situation was different: many scientific discoveries faced a wall of misunderstanding and even hostility. This is what happened to Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures.
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