"I had discovered a new explanation for our deadliest disease," he said, "I thought I would get a big-shot professorship out of it."
The rest, considering what he said in the quote I posted, is probably embellishment.
try reading this one on how establishment practices stiffle good research...
MAGAZINE DESK | August 10, 1997, Sunday The Fall and Rise Of Kilmer McCully
By Michelle Stacey (NYT) 4182 words
Late Edition - Final, Section 6, Page 25, Column 1 ABSTRACT - Michelle Stacey article on Kilmer McCully, whose career-long study of homocysteine as trigger of heart disease is suddenly at forefront of cardiac research, after three decades in which he was virtual medical outcast; McCully, now 63, believes that homocysteine, an amino acid in blood, damages artery walls and causes heart attacks, but can in most cases be lowered to safe levels by certain common vitamins; he made initial observations while working in 1960's at Harvard, where he had graduated, but support for work flagged as medical community began to accept cholesterol as major element in heart disease; Robert T McCluskey, who headed research at Harvard and Mass General Hospital, blames lack of Federal funding; McCully himself recalls rumors of 'poison phone calls' that prevented him from getting new research job for two years, until he took post at Providence VA hospital; he comments on belated support for his theory; interview;