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Those are useful analogies; I guess you might also say "if you found out that handwashing helped prevent disease, wouldn't you want to tell other people?".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

The other people might not believe you, and you might end up being wrong about some or all aspects of what you thought you had discovered, but it makes sense that you would feel an urgency in letting people know about it.



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