Mainly because it didn’t come from a fellow MD.
These are the same world-beaters who opposed handwashing for surgery and childbirth. And mocked the idea of bacteria causing ulcers. Just like Fiddler on the Roof.
Tradition!
‘And mocked the idea of bacteria causing ulcers.”
Yeah buddy..... wasn’t that guy an Aussie doc?
Took like 5 years, give or take, before he was vindicated.
Bunch of knuckleheads.... couldn’t stand it that some lowly “peon” had figured it out.