“People had been seriously studying stomach ulcers for 50 years, billions of dollars were spent, and then — what do you know, it’s a bacteria. So you have to ask, what other infectious diseases are we missing? A lot of these things that are supposedly also caused by stress, you try to track down the reason for that link, and there isn’t one, except the fact that we don’t have any better cause. You can typically always find some stress if you look for it. Everything that’s supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there’s a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause. I reckon a lot of these mysterious chronic diseases are related to some infectious agent. We’ll see if I’m right.”—Barry Marshall, Nobel laureate in Medicine
“People had been seriously studying stomach ulcers for 50 years, billions of dollars were spent, and then — what do you know, it’s a bacteria. So you have to ask, what other infectious diseases are we missing? A lot of these things that are supposedly also caused by stress, you try to track down the reason for that link, and there isn’t one, except the fact that we don’t have any better cause. You can typically always find some stress if you look for it. Everything that’s supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there’s a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause. I reckon a lot of these mysterious chronic diseases are related to some infectious agent. We’ll see if I’m right.”—Barry Marshall, Nobel laureate in Medicine