"pamela" wrote in message
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On 22:39 12 Apr 2016, Rod Speed wrote:
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No one had debated if bacteria caused stomach ulcers because the
assumption had been that no bacteria could ever live there. It
had long been held that the contents of the stomach were far too
acidic for bacteria to survive. Consequently it was a real
surprise that bacteria, such as h.pylori, could be found there at
all and, from that, it was a step to find h.pylori was implicated
in ulcers. Although even that is still debated by some to this
day.

Trivially proven by ingesting the bacteria that was claimed to
be the problem and seeing it produce ulcers.

All great insights are simple when looking back on them but it
can't have been all that simple at the time if they got a nobel
prize for their discovery. As an example, I think the idea that
nitric oxide is a cellular signalling compound in the human body
is simple enough but it took some major insights to discover that.
Similarly, the special theory of relativity is straightforward
enough to understand by reading up on it on a long train journey
but it took Einstein to have the insight to discover it.

That was another nobel prize but it nearly didn't happen.

Never mind, pamela. At least he hasn't flushed your **** where it belongs,
yet.