Some of medicine’s most glaring historical (sometimes hysterical) misadventures include:
- Bloodletting as cure-all
- The SLOW Evolution of germ theory – Rejection by the Medical Community
- Dr. Semmelweiss and his hand-washing recommendation
- Medical promotion of cocaine, heroin, and other narcotics
- Medical promotion of cigarettes
- Medically caused blindness in babies
- The shoe-fitting fluoroscope
- Medically performed Lobotomy on 60,000+ U.S. children for hyper-activity
- Thalidomide
- DES
- HRT: The menopause “cure”
- H. pylori, the true cause of ulcers
- The Human Genome Project
- The Vioxx disaster that killed 60,000