The first doctor to postulate washing hands to prevent infection was put into a mental asylum for going against the science

But as always the anti-science info provided in SW is just a sliver of a misquoted story. He was committed years later due to his strange behavior, believed to be from syphilis or dementia of some kind. So you're full of it, just like most of your ilk here are.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives

or

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ignaz-Semmelweis