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We believe that this chlorine-washing theory has long outlived its usefulness.
*[[Lord Kelvin]] claiming heavier than air flight, radio, and radioactivity were impossible.<ref>http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/stoopid.lis</ref>
*[[Lord Kelvin]] claiming heavier than air flight, radio, and radioactivity were impossible.<ref>http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/stoopid.lis</ref>
*Opposition by 19th century European doctors to [[Semmelweiss]]'s discovery that invisible "particles" were transmitting disease and killing patients in a Vienna hospital.<ref> An 1856 publication in a prominent Viennese medical periodical, Viennese Medical Weekly, by Jozsef Fleischer, a student of Semmelweis, showed success of chlorine washings. However, the editor for the periodical wrote at the end of the report “We believe that this chlorine-washing theory has long outlived its usefulness. The experiences and statistical results of most maternity institutions protest against the views presented above. ... [http://exp-platform.com/semmelweisReflex.aspx The Semmelweiss Reflex]</ref>
*[[Albert Einstein]] thought [[nuclear power]] would never be commercially viable.
*[[Albert Einstein]] thought [[nuclear power]] would never be commercially viable.
*Opposition by experts to the United States Patent Office, because supposedly everything useful has been invented.<ref>This opposition can be found in many forms, from weakening the strength of patents by small inventors today to repetition of a quote attributed to Charles Duell, Commissioner of the Patent Office, in 1899: "everything that can be invented has been invented." While Charles Duell never said such a thing and it doesn't reflect his position on patents at all, "this saying has been so often quoted that it has been gradually accepted as a truth, and thus being still repeatedly quoted again and again even by prominent scholars." [http://www.intertic.org/Policy%20Papers/Pretnar.pdf Bojan Pretnar, "Two Sources of Persistent Patent Controversy," p.4]</ref>
*Opposition by experts to the United States Patent Office, because supposedly everything useful has been invented.<ref>This opposition can be found in many forms, from weakening the strength of patents by small inventors today to repetition of a quote attributed to Charles Duell, Commissioner of the Patent Office, in 1899: "everything that can be invented has been invented." While Charles Duell never said such a thing and it doesn't reflect his position on patents at all, "this saying has been so often quoted that it has been gradually accepted as a truth, and thus being still repeatedly quoted again and again even by prominent scholars." [http://www.intertic.org/Policy%20Papers/Pretnar.pdf Bojan Pretnar, "Two Sources of Persistent Patent Controversy," p.4]</ref>