In my opinion, the most convincing scientific discoveries have always been those which have gone straight against what people wanted and expected . ( For instance, the famous Michelson-Morley experiment ) Then there's the fact that anecdotal evidence is simply not considered proof, in particular if you don't have a detailed theory explaining what's going on.
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In the 1990s psychologist D . Corydon Hammond publicized a detailed theory of ritual abuse drawn from hypnotherapy sessions with his patients, alleging they were victims of a worldwide conspiracy of organized, secretive alternate personalities that could be " activated " with code words; the victims were allegedly trained as assassins, prostitutes, drug traffickers, and child sex workers ( to create child pornography ).
