Award winning novelist Siri Hustvedt looks at this in her latest novel, Memories of the Future
My conversation with Siri Hustvedt:
"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"