NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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This is so true:

From flipper44, Howard Wolinsky:

'As the saying goes, nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Yet, many proponents of new ideas have a ‘hard time' up until their colleagues become convinced of the merits. It is not only the reluctance of established research fields and communities that slow down the uptake of revolutionary hypotheses, but also a general reluctance to explore new ideas and support those who do so. As Pembrey commented, many more speculative ideas need to be considered, but scientific journals usually do not have the space for such conceptual papers. In addition, the main research funding organizations do not make ‘big bets' to support speculative research. “Funding bodies like the UK Medical Research Council encourage scientists to think out of the box,” Pembrey said. “But in the end these [applications] turn into minor projects.” 

It is not only the reluctance of established research fields and communities that slow down the uptake of revolutionary hypotheses, but also a general reluctance to explore new ideas and support those who do so 

Despite the difficulties, there is some comfort for those who think that they have a revolutionary insight that remains largely ignored: history has nearly always proven that, in the end, truth prevails, as the stories of great scientists such as Darwin, Heisenberg and Marshall show.'