On 12/04/2016 23:17, pamela wrote:

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.


Err, that was suspected, but the big pharma companies that produced
Tagamet paid for many research posts in various teaching hospitals
and anyone who dared to try and challenge the accepted 'wisdom'
at the time would have committed professional suicide in the UK.