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0:00 · Have you heard of the Cassandra complex?

0:01 · Do you know what this is?

0:02 · No. In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra is given the gift of being able to see the future by Apollo. And then she rejects his advances, so he curses her. And he says that for the rest of time, you're still going to be able to see the future, but people aren't going to believe you. So, she foresees the downfall of Troy. She warns everybody, people don't listen, Troy burns anyway. And it's basically being right, but early. Ignaz Semmelweis, like 1840s, he realizes that doctors [music] are transmitting childbed fever from corpses to mothers, because they're not washing their hands. Ooh.

0:31 · So, he begs his colleagues to start adopting hand washing, and he gets mocked by academia. He dies in an asylum. He dies in an asylum, that's how badly he's treated.

0:42 · Germ theory of disease gets a couple of decades later gets proven. The problem is, the difference between somebody being a a righteous Cassandra with the ability to see the future, and just being a crazy person who's been convinced by bad data or perverse incentives, it's very hard to work out which one you are.