Semmelweis-Reflex

The Semmelweis Reflex refers to the immediate rejection of an information or scientific discovery without additional consideration or further examination. In some cases had innovations in science a punishment rather than an appropriate remuneration for the episode because those innovations established paradigms and behavioral patterns so allowed. Concept formation was coined by American author Robert Anton Wilson and named after the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis. Semmelweis led different back high incidence of puerperal fever to poor hygiene among physicians and hospital staff, trying to introduce hygiene regulations. His study of 1847/48 is now regarded as the first practical case of evidence-based medicine in Austria. During his lifetime, his findings were not recognized, in particular rejected by positivist set critics and colleagues as " speculative nonsense ".