What popular history says is that Ignaz Semmelweis was discredited by the physicians of the time. But it's all the truth? Or some important portion of the obstetrician believed in his studies? And his studies were well-grounded in the scientific method at the time, or they lacked something? I know that germ theory wasn't accepted at the time, but, even if he could not give the ground of the effectiveness of the method, the method would be simply discarded? Nowadays, I believe, there is a lot of drugs and methods in medicine that even their inventors do not know why they work, but they are used nevertheless