The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “14 historical figures mocked in their era who were eventually proven right.”
- When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudoscience
- The New York Times mocked this scientist in 1920. His discoveries could now take us to Mars
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Press Release
- John Snow, cholera and the Broad Street water pump
- Alice Evans, A Pioneer for Women in Microbiology
- The Woman Who Stood Between America and a Generation of ‘Thalidomide Babies’
- Dispelling myths and highlighting history of the heliocentric model
- The search for the lost city of Troy
- Ignaz Semmelweis
- Joseph Lister (1827-1912): A Pioneer of Antiseptic Surgery
- The child whose town rejected vaccines
- Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident