I remember a short book called "The Spider Web" or something writed by a german dude in ~1925 predicting the nazi party.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Not exactly quacks, but like

      Ok Aristotle was one of the early guys to be like "wow we should start to figure out stars and shit"

      That was great, but his particular conclusions were not great, like the sun orbits the Earth. It was a good first crack at it.

      Same with Freud. "Wow let's figure out people's brain and shit, now that we know it's not devil spirits. Maybe everyone wants to fuck his mom"

      And of course we all know it was their dad all along

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      3 years ago

      To play devil's advocate, those were the theories available at the time.