Psychology
Why Experts Reject Ideas That Challenge Them
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Telling a group of established experts that their entire life's work is flawed usually results in spectacular outrage. The Semmelweis reflex is a metaphor for the knee-jerk reflex-like rejection of new knowledge because it contradicts entrenched norms. It is a brilliant reminder that humans prefer the comfort of being wrong together over the discomfort of being right alone.
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