My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.
More here, including (which I didn't know until now) cardiac catheterization.
I'm sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs
Innovation, perhaps; progress...that's something else.
I, read this like, William Shatner, in his, role as, captain, Kirk.
I'm gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:
"This."
How'd I do?
Pretty sure that's completely acceptable in parts of northern California (source: born and raised in northern California).
Blender has entered he chat (unless things have changed since I used it last).
I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn't sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to \mathrm); googling latex residue did not produce the search results I was hoping for...
And many folks have headless setups
raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It's kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.
The Taco Bell meme afaik isn't about food poisoning at all, it's that it's a lot of oil-rich beans, which can have a certain effect.
Regarding food poisoning, I think you're right that it's worse in the USA, but the EU is not without food poisoning. My suspicion is that the media attention is different in part because food in Europe tends to come from smaller farms, whereas in the USA it tends to come from larger farms (is my understanding). So, an outbreak at a farm in the USA is bad because it potentially affects a huge number of people, whereas in the EU it may be a smaller farm with less of an impact (so any individual outbreak is less impactful). Just a guess, and it's in my opinion good to strive for lots of small farms rather than a few big ones.
For some (most?) of us, we don't have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.
This realization/acceptance led to us having kids.
Our first was a girl. Second was a boy. Third will be a vasectomy.