Comments on: Happy birthday Foucault’s Pendulum

By: Walking uphill both ways at Bench Press

Walking uphill both ways at Bench Press — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:22:15 +0000

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By: suchire

suchire — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:39:03 +0000

Ah yes, Marshall's experiment probably wasn't so elegant. Intense pain, GI problems, etc….not so clean…

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:26:09 +0000

Ok, editing post to say “elegant”, not “simple”

By: suchire

suchire — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:27:14 +0000

Then you have people like Barry Marshall and Morris on Helicobacter pylori. Marshall drank a culture to induce ulcers (and thus show a causative relationship between the bacteria and ulcers), and then Morris, in the name of scientific reproducibility, did the same thing to himself and published the confirmation. Marshall recovered with antibiotics, but Morris remained debilitated for about 3 years…