Andrew,
I remember them well as their seminal paper came out while I was
in Pathology Residency. If memory serves me correctly one of the
researchers satisfied Koch's Postulate by culturing Helicobacter pylori
from the stomach of a patient with active gastritis then inducing the
same gastritis in himself by consuming said H. pylori culture. That
takes big aussie balls.
Charlie
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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Probably controversial
My favorite on that one is the story of the two Australians who
recently won a Nobel for discovering that gastric ulcers are caused
by a bacterium. Of course, when this was proposed, everyone 'knew'
that bacteria could not survive in the stomach and the pharmaceutical
industry was producing lots of profitable, ineffective and expensive
long term medications. The shitstorm that they had to survive was
incredible.
Now of course it''s a total conversion - if you are one of the small
percentage with actual stress ulcers, like a friend of mine, you no
longer fit the common wisdom.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 28/02/2007, at 5:06 AM, James N. McBride wrote:
> t did cost us some funding because the nuclear industry cooperation
> went
> away for doing certain series of tests. They did not want to see the
> results. Some of our managers lost their jobs because they would
> not cave in
> to industry pressure and told the truth. When faced with that
> situation the
> word integrity takes on a whole new meaning. Some actually have it
> and I'm
> proud to have known some of them. /jmac
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