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I wonder if there's any field other than psychology that has a prominent historical figure seen as the field's founder, but also whose every word on the topic is generally regarded by those in the field as pretty much just plain wrong
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but in cases like, say, astronomy, you might think of copernicus or galileo as founders, and both of them were wrong about a bunch of stuff but they were also right about a bunch of stuff
and newtonian mechanics (n.b.: newton's laws were probably stolen from hooke, but newton gets credit anyway because history) is still perfectly valid when not dealing with exceptional situations
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maybe medicine in the broader sense, looking at Galen as the "founder" and very little of his work has any actual scientific merit as we understand
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