"They laughed at Galileo, so my controversial theory must be right!" This is the Galileo gambit, a logical fallacy that surfaced repeatedly in Europe during COVID-19, notably around French professor Didier Raoult and his promotion of hydroxychloroquine.
As Carl Sagan countered in Broca's Brain: "... the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are…