He was actually one of the fathers of evidence-based medicine by counting number of death in hospitals after child-birth.
He discovered that when women where treated by doctors MORE deaths occurred than when women where treated by nurses. The reason for this might have been that the doctors also dissected corpses at university and brought germs from this when examining women.
That was the problem of the message: He postulated that his peers, the noble doctors were directly responsible for a high number of deaths. This was a message nobody wanted to hear.
Since he became more and more outspoken and angry that nobody believed him, they shut him up by luring him into an asylum where he died.
Later his methods were approved, since the young students had no bad conscience about having indirectly killed women in their career.
In 1865, János Balassa wrote a document referring Semmelweis to a mental institution. On July 30, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra lured him, under the pretense of visiting one of Hebra's "new Institutes", to a Viennese insane asylum located in Lazarettgasse (Landes-Irren-Anstalt in der Lazarettgasse).[60] Semmelweis surmised what was happening and tried to leave. He was severely beaten by several guards, secured in a straitjacket, and confined to a darkened cell. Apart from the straitjacket, treatments at the mental institution included dousing with cold water and administering castor oil, a laxative. He died after two weeks, on August 13, 1865, aged 47, from a gangrenous wound, due to an infection on his right hand which might have been caused by the struggle. The autopsy gave the cause of death as pyemia—blood poisoning.
And how to no go insane and drown in Cassandra syndrome?
Privacy advocates are a bit closer to the mark but though they have much less popular voice than climate activists, they're also widely listened to (even if few organizations do much to apply their advice).
I honestly have no idea what a paper lobbyist is.
> paper lobbyist
one who wants to slow down datafication of all aspects of life. Both private and public. I took paper as a symbol.
I've never heard of paper activism as an actual cause. Interesting, and definitely less known than the others it seems.
As for paper - I suspect that written letter communication leaves a much smaller footprint than sending emails and printing on demand. However, I have no evidence of this yet.
But https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ has something about the rebound effect exceeding the initial savings.
Uh, how so?
Imagine watching mother after mother die in front of you. Imagine knowing the solution. Imagine the people around you ignoring it. Surely that would be enough to drive any normal man insane, or to alcoholism, or some other escape from reality