John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar in 1972 (2014)
telegraph.co.ukAsk HN: Are there any noteworthy researchers who have been similarly shunned for their contrarian-yet-sound scientific proclamations in recent decades?
Katalin Karikó, one of the most important scientists in the mRNA field, was demoted by University of Pennsylvania in the late 1990s because her research was considered impractical and a waste of time. While not a total shunning, it is anyway quite a demeaning experience.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfi...
A generation later, she is considered a good candidate for the Nobel Prize.
Not just impractical, but was fatal. She was demoted until she figured how to make it not fatal.
Galileo Galilei?
Galileo was punished for repeatedly insulting the Pope, not for his science.
Why did Big Tobacco lose a $246 Billion lawsuit, but Big Sugar didn't?