Controversial conspiracy theorist Ignaz Semmelweiss has died in the mental hospital where he was placed due to his irrational belief that childbirth fever could be reduced if the attending medical personnel would wash their hands.
Top medical doctors spoke out against his ridiculous assertion, saying that it would be dangerous to allow Semmelweiss to continue speaking out to the general public, who might lose faith in the medical scientific consensus that there is no connection between doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies, and childbirth fever.
The general public is too uninformed and ignorant to be exposed to such lunatic ideas, respected authorities say. But Semmelweiss refused to submit to established medical opinion and continued to assert his wild conspiracy theory. He pointed to his research as ''proof'' that his theory was correct, but other doctors say that his research was faulty and the implications were insulting, and therefore he was removed from his position. Fact checkers have assured the public that the research results were Fake News and should not be believed.
Authorities regret that Semmelweiss was beaten by guards in the mental institution, dying 2 weeks later, but speaking on condition of anonymity, one top doctor said "It is better to have him dead than to have him spreading wild ideas and undermining scientific consensus".
