From the New York Times: [Dr. Fred Kummerow] became a pioneer of trans-fat research, one of the first scientists to assert a link between heart disease and processed foods. It would be more than three decades before those findings were widely accepted. “Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease, except if it’s oxidized,” Dr. …
Ignaz Semmelweis’ life paints a portrait of those who make profound discoveries which are deem unscientific by the contemporary medical and scientific communities. Despite his successes in reducing mortality of puerperal fever, aka childbed fever, his ideas were rejected by most scientists and physicians at the time. His attempts and failure to convince doctors of the …
Kilmer McCully, author of The Homocysteine Revolution, learned first hand the consequences of challenging the medical dogma on the exclusive role of cholesterol as a causative factor in developing heart disease. Some of his experiences are recounted in the 1997 article The Fall and Rise Of Kilmer McCully. He was moved to an inferior laboratory …