Semmelweis Reflex -- Rejecting new ideas because they feel off ? I've done it, too. Turns out, the old ways aren't always the best ones. #SemmelweisReflex #OpSec Psychology Notes

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

@elisaperego78.bsky.social, this is because HCW were taught that only measles and TB are airborne

@linseymarr.bsky.social discovered the mistakes that led to that false conclusion (www.wired.com/story/the-te...), but the #SemmelweisReflex led HCWs to reject COVID being airborne

#IgnoranceKills

We don't see a lot. This is the main driver for ignorance. We hide our 'food' so we can't see it. We don't see the foundation of life aka primary producers like the bacteria & viruses 🦠 We don't see pesticides, nitrogen fertilizer, CO2, CH4, ozone or microplastics. #SemmelweisReflex

Fungi are biological consumers - the largest consumer on Earth. But they are still beneficials for primary producers like bacteria and secondary producers like plants.

Fungi are more visible than bacteria and we like it when we can see things. #SemmelweisReflex
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We project our own extreme #ideologies that normalize torture and destruction onto others.

Classic #DARVO
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Hirschhausens Hirnschmalz: Die Semmelweis-Reflex-Starre Hygiene hilft

Artikel von 2014 #Semmelweisreflex

„Einer der großen Irrtümer des 20. Jahrhunderts war der, zu glauben, die Ära der Infektionskrankheiten sei vorbei. Tragischerweise trägt bis heute die Unwissenheit über die Übertragungswege massiv zu Epidemien bei.“

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