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[nidan7500]

Falconer...Cannot tell you how refreshing and informative your comments here have been. None of us can see into the future with any precision of course but there are certain process triggers which, over time, pop to the surface and SCREAM...LOOK HERE. That has happened to me a couple of times over the past 30+ years, so I have an ear for them. IMO, Dr. M.'s comments on CNS Homeostasis is such a message. He did not say BREAKTHROUGH but the results did for me. Measuring breakthroughs using conventional techniques makes zero sense to me but there are those who insist we must continue to do exactly that. Planned changes to FDA guidance/trial rules are perhaps analogous to the processes you describe.

Your students were very fortunate, and so it goes. We ARE going to win this one.

But such was not the acceptance of the germ theory itself. Semmelweiss, Pasteur, Lister, et al. showed conclusively that bacteria, “germs,” cause infections. But it took almost a half century for conventional medical science to fully accept the germ theory. Disease was “known” to be caused by bad and re-breathed air, not microscopic organisms in air and water.

In short, medical people have never been quick to re-think what they know and believe about the etiology and treatment of diseases. They know and believe mostly what the medical ancients wrote, and what their med school professors taught, two groups of the most intelligent and knowledgeable humans in all of history.