Didnt know this had a name. QUOTE The Semmelweis reflex or Semmelweis effect is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms. ... In his book The Game of Life, Timothy Leary provided the following polemical definition of the Semmelweis reflex: Mob behavior found among primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets, in which a discovery of important scientific fact is punished. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex
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