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  title info:
    title: I told you so!
    sub title: scientists who were ridiculed, exiled, and imprisoned for being right
  name:
    name part: Kaplan, Matt
    name part: 1977-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 269 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
  abstract: An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted-from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners. For two decades, Matt Kaplan has covered science for the Economist. He's seen breakthroughs often occur in spite of, rather than because of, the behavior of the research community, and how support can be withheld for those who don't conform or have the right connections. In this passionately argued and entertaining book, Kaplan narrates the history of the 19th century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis, who realized that Childbed fever, a devastating infection that only struck women who had recently given birth, was spread by doctors not washing their hands. Semmelweis was met with overwhelming hostility by those offended at the notion that doctors were at fault and is a prime example of how the scientific community often fights new ideas, even when the facts are staring them in the face. In entertaining prose, Kaplan reveals scientific cases past and present to make his case. Some are familiar, like Galileo being threatened with torture and Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó being fired when on the brink of discovering how to wield mRNA, a finding that proved pivotal for the creation of the Covid-19 vaccine. Others less so, like researchers silenced for raising safety concerns about new drugs, and biologists ridiculed for revealing major flaws in the way rodent research is conducted. Kaplan shows how the scientific community can work faster and better by making reasonably small changes to the forces that shape it.
  target audience: adult
  note: Matt Kaplan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Scientists
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Political aspects
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Social aspects
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Discoveries in science
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Discoveries in science
  subject:
    topic: Creative ability in science
  subject:
    topic: Conformity
  classification: Q141 .K264 2026
  classification: 509.2/2
  identifier: 9781250372277
  identifier: 1250372275
  identifier: 9781250372284
  identifier: 1250372283
  identifier: 2025051834
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260102
    record change date: 20260805132408.8
    record identifier: in00005694384