"Friedman and Marden offer example after example of what happens when good people fall to step back and look at not only the details. but the big picture. Sometimes it"s those we love most who we chastise hardest, and in the case of this book, the authors" love for scientists and the scientific community is evident in this epic wake-up call."---George Noory, host, Coast to Coast AM "When considering the histrocial record of scientific experts, from their on manned flight and atom bombs to germs and global warming. the one const seems to be that mostly they were wrong. Perhaps it is time for the public to consider alternative sources of information. such as this book."---Jim Marrs, journalist and author of the New York Times best-sellers Crossfire, Rule by Secrecy. and The Rise of the Fourth Reich Two months before the Wright brothers" historic flight at Kitty Hawk, a top scientist declared that "no possible combination of known substances can be united in a practical [flying] machine..." Germ theory was first advanced in ancient Sanskrit texts thousands of years ago, but wasn"t widely accepted until late in the 19th century. Space travel was declared "utter bilge" in 1956 by the British Astronomer Royal, one of a long line of scientists who "proved" it was impossible. Throughout history, it has been difficult, even impossible, to promote the acceptance of new discoveries. Yet during the last two centuries, there has been a veritable explosion of new cures, theories, techniques, and inventions that have revolutionized aviation, space travel, communications, medicine, and warfare. Most of them, of course, were deemed "impossible." Science Was Wrong is a fascinating collection of stories about the pioneers who created or thought up the "impossible" cures, theories, and inventions "they" said couldn"t work.