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RE: There Is No Father Of Flight
Actually the newest research in stomach ulcers points out that stress is not the cause and it is false believe. The cause is likely to be Helicobacter pylori bacteria or certain medications.
Wright Brothers were ridiculed but they would have never built their machine if not for all those attempts of inventors before them. They weren't born with the knowledge. They learnt it from someone else.
The guy who cured stomach ulcers is a really old story, so I didn't feel I needed to write it out.
Whole world believes stomach ulcers are caused by stress. Barry Marshall comes along and says its not caused by stress, its caused by a bacteria. He literally has to infect himself, and then cure it... and it still took a while for people to believe him.
So, Barry Marshall wasn't working with any prior knowledge, he went against it.
The Wright Brothers didn't follow any previous inventors. In fact, there were none that they found. If you read their story you would understand that. They truly went against common knowledge to do what they did.
No, he was working with the prior knowledge. Medical knowledge he has acquired, specifically about bactieria.
He wasn't born with that knowledge. He had come up to this idea after all the experiences and knowledge he acquire from other people (their books, lectures, shared ideas etc). Wright Brothers idea continued on ideas of others who were before them. They had to learn their skills and had to be influenced and inspired by knowledge from people before them.
The idea that someone can come up with some idea without influence of the environent is an arrogant idea. It suggests that human is the only entity in universe that can work (or think) without being affected by the environment.