noun: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
noun: a malicious attack

All great discoverers, inventors or those of great vision are attacked by those invested in the status quo. Countless are the tools of villification, demonization and invalidation used by the small minded.

See Also

---

Aerial Navigation
Calumniate
Defamation
Ether the True Protoplasm
Fake News
Harassment
Invalidation
Keely Supported by Eminent Men of Science
Libel
Slander
Sympathetic Vibratory Force
The Doom of Steam
Vilification
Was Keely a Fraud?
Was Keely Imprisoned for stock fraud
Yellow Journalism
19.07 - A Modern Wizard The Keely Motor And Its Inventor