Yeah okay Ill reblog that!
Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.
The inventor of K-Cups has a big regret: that he invented them.
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spacecatsaremadeofdarkmatter
Aza Raskin, the guy who invented infinite scrolling, hates what his invention has done to people
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hellochildrenoftheatom
The creator of 8chan regrets what he did
Brennan no longer has control of 8chan, which has been run by U.S. Army veteran Jim Watkins since 2015.
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krisrisk
Richard "Ric" O’Barry was dolphin trainer on the Flipper tv show and did a full 180°. He's still an activist for marine life.
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theshampyon
The term "incel" and the concept of "involuntary celibacy" was coined in the late 1990s by a teenage girl who made a forum for lonely people of all genders and sexualities to support and encourage each other to find love and happiness. She only learned what the concept had evolved into when reading a feminist magazine that had an article about mass murdering incel Eliot Rodger.
When Alana started a website for lonely people struggling to find love, she had no idea where it would lead.
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serotoninswitch
John Larson, the inventor of the Polygraph test, also called it a "Frankensteins Monster" and spent the rest of his career advocating against its usage, especially in law enforcement.
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phantom-whale-pelvis
Donald Currey. He was the guy who had Prometheus the oldest tree ever recorded cut down after his core sampler got stuck. He was so upset he switched professions and started studying geology. He was giving an interview on salt flats when the interviewer went "hey are you the Currey who killed the oldest tree?" and he quite literally ran away.
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lucy-verse
Anna Jarvis created “Mother’s Day” to commemorate her own mother’s death, and was understandably furious when it became commercialised and used as an excuse to inflate prices. She spent a lot of her own money trying to copyright the holiday and stop marketers using the term to make a profit.
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immoralq
The bloke who created chloroflurocarbons (CFCs) reportedly invented them to make up for the fact that he'd previously invented leaded petrol.
Before CFCs, air conditioning and refrigeration used chemicals like ammonia, methyl formate and sulfur dioxide as coolants - which were highly toxic, flammable and/or explosive.
Poor bloke thought he was doing a good thing.
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evelynstarshine
Inventor of modern chemical fertilizer spent rest of life campaigning against them
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thelove-ablepenguin
The man who created plastic bags thought people would reuse them and is horrified by what he's created
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eaglehorn
Do you hate having to change your password multiple times per year and weird complexity rules?
The guy who put that in US Government guidelines (which are copied by everyone else) has apologized. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4240252/man-who-made-passwords-hard-to-remember-regrets-rules-that-drive-people-crazy-1.4240255
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autumngracy
As well as
The guy who invented cubicles
The guy who invented K-cups
The guy who invented dynamite (the same guy who established the Nobel Pesce Prize)
The guy who invented emoticons/emojis
The woman that invented "Mother's Day"
The guy that created the "Comic Sans" font
The guy that created "Flappy Bird"
The guy that invented the World Wide Web
The guy that created pepper spray
The guy that invented television
The co-inventor of the polygraph machine
The guy that invented radar
Both Einstein and Oppenheimer, who regetted their involvement of the creation of atomic bombs (though Einstein was never directly involved; just his scientific work)
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salvaation
The woman who popularized gender reveal parties specifically had hers bc she had a history of miscarriages and that was her first pregnancy to make it to the point you could identify the sex of the baby.
Said child is now GNC and she has several other kids, but yeah she hates what they've become.
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monkeychewtoy
Nobel literally created the Nobel Prizes as an attempt to apologize for the harm done by his invention of TNT
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realisticallyrejectingreality
The scientist (Dave Mech) who wrote the book that popularized the idea of alpha and omega wolves has since come out and said that his observations were based on a flawed study of the behavior of unrelated captive wolves. Wild wolf packs are typically family units, composed of one breeding pair and their multiple litters of varying ages. Some larger wolf packs may occasionally have more than one breeding female if one or more of the original pair's daughters have a liaison with a wandering male or some similar situation occurs. Point being, wild wolf pack dynamics are more complicated than "weak omegas follow the strong alphas," but also a big part of the reason the non breeding members of the pack follow the breeding pair is because that's their mom and dad! And when they want to make their own pack, they leave!
