This is what happens when emotions, government and ego come before intellect and logic.
Pellagra
Dr. Joseph Goldberger
Despite his careful experiments, Goldberger's discovery proved socially and politically unacceptable, and he made little progress in gaining support for the treating of pellagra.[3] With further research, however, in 1926 Goldberger was able to prove that a Vitamin B deficiency was the cause of pellagra.[7] Conrad Elvehjem discovered the specific mechanismthat pellagra is caused by a dietary lack of the B vitamin niacin along with reduced levels of the essential amino acid tryptophanin 1937.[8]
rejection of goldbergers theory
"At a national conference on pellagra a few days after the Mississippi convict study was released, most researchers leaned towards a "sanitation" hypothesis, focusing on a study containing over 1,000 observations which found a negative correlation between the presence of indoor plumbing and sanitation and the occurrence of pellagra. The author of this study cited the statistical techniques of Karl Pearson and Charles Davenport to support this claim. Goldberger argued that the diets of those with indoor plumbing and sewers differed from those who lived in areas with outdoor plumbing and no sewers (i.e., the poor). Pearson, inventor of the correlation coefficient, lived in England and so did not attend the conference.. His fellow eugenicist Charles Davenport, however, offered a "hereditarian" theory of the etiology of pellagra."
politicized science always has negative consequences for humanity. poor people are likely to have malnutrition and poor sanitary condition so obviously there would be a correlation.
dark matters the cure for pellagra
Pellagra
Dr. Joseph Goldberger
Despite his careful experiments, Goldberger's discovery proved socially and politically unacceptable, and he made little progress in gaining support for the treating of pellagra.[3] With further research, however, in 1926 Goldberger was able to prove that a Vitamin B deficiency was the cause of pellagra.[7] Conrad Elvehjem discovered the specific mechanismthat pellagra is caused by a dietary lack of the B vitamin niacin along with reduced levels of the essential amino acid tryptophanin 1937.[8]
rejection of goldbergers theory
"At a national conference on pellagra a few days after the Mississippi convict study was released, most researchers leaned towards a "sanitation" hypothesis, focusing on a study containing over 1,000 observations which found a negative correlation between the presence of indoor plumbing and sanitation and the occurrence of pellagra. The author of this study cited the statistical techniques of Karl Pearson and Charles Davenport to support this claim. Goldberger argued that the diets of those with indoor plumbing and sewers differed from those who lived in areas with outdoor plumbing and no sewers (i.e., the poor). Pearson, inventor of the correlation coefficient, lived in England and so did not attend the conference.. His fellow eugenicist Charles Davenport, however, offered a "hereditarian" theory of the etiology of pellagra."
politicized science always has negative consequences for humanity. poor people are likely to have malnutrition and poor sanitary condition so obviously there would be a correlation.
dark matters the cure for pellagra
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