They did not accept his ideas at once, they thought they were absurd. Even when Goldberger sent them his report about the experiment, they rejected his ideas because they thought his experiment had flaws.
The first time he tried to prove that pallarga is not an infectious disease since hospital staff who worked closely with pellagra patients did not get sick, his demostration was rejected. Despite the experiment he did with the prisoners and his discoveries about the pallarga, his theory was rejected again.
Eight years later, Niacin or vitamin B3 plentiful, vegetables and meat would be identified as the missing ingredient and when it was added to commercial flour the curse of pellagra disappeared from United States.
No, at first his theory wasn't accepted because he was unable of identifying the vitamin that was missing and they thought that his study had errors.
In my opinion, it's also difficult for important people to assume that this illness was caused by the poor diet that was being given in public institutions.
Goldberger proposed the theory that pellagra was caused by a nutritional deficiency. To test his theory, he made an experiment on prisoners on the Rankin State Prison Farm (Mississippi). āFirst iām going to make some men sick, then iām going to make them betterā
He fed them the diet of the southern poor for 6 months. The prisoners developed the disease, and by changing the diet, they were completely cured.
However, his experiment was criticised. Scientists didnāt believe the diet was the cause. Goldberger died of cancer in 1929 and didn't find the missing piece to his discoveries.
8 years later, niacin or vitamin B3 (plentiful in vegetables and meat), would be that missing piece.
The scientific community did not accept Goldberger's trial due to a lack of scientific and molecular evidence. If I had been a member of the scientific community at the time, not only I would have rejected the theory, but also encouraged more invastigations to be made following Goldberger's trail so as to get to the bottom of the problem.
Besides the sucess of Goldberger, scientific community claimed that the pellagra outbreak was a product of the region's widespread proverty. And Goldberger never discovered the exact nutrient deficiency that caused pellagra, that was a huge flaw in his theory.
The scientific community did not accept Goldberger theory about the origin of the Pellagra disease. Although Goldberger demonstrated through the prisoners, the cause of this serious pathology. He showed that the lack of the vitamin B3 in their diets would make appear pellagra. The scientific community did not accepted Goldberger evidences, and sad that his study had errors that could not be ignored.
No, becouse he did not know which was the missing nutrient in food.
They did not accept his ideas at once, they thought they were absurd. Even when Goldberger sent them his report about the experiment, they rejected his ideas because they thought his experiment had flaws.
The first time he tried to prove that pallarga is not an infectious disease since hospital staff who worked closely with pellagra patients did not get sick, his demostration was rejected. Despite the experiment he did with the prisoners and his discoveries about the pallarga, his theory was rejected again.
Eight years later, Niacin or vitamin B3 plentiful, vegetables and meat would be identified as the missing ingredient and when it was added to commercial flour the curse of pellagra disappeared from United States.
No, at first his theory wasn't accepted because he was unable of identifying the vitamin that was missing and they thought that his study had errors.
In my opinion, it's also difficult for important people to assume that this illness was caused by the poor diet that was being given in public institutions.
The scientific community did not accept Goldberger ideas at once because he couldnĀ“t discover which nutrient was missing from the "pellagra diet".
Goldberger proposed the theory that pellagra was caused by a nutritional deficiency. To test his theory, he made an experiment on prisoners on the Rankin State Prison Farm (Mississippi). āFirst iām going to make some men sick, then iām going to make them betterā
He fed them the diet of the southern poor for 6 months. The prisoners developed the disease, and by changing the diet, they were completely cured.
However, his experiment was criticised. Scientists didnāt believe the diet was the cause. Goldberger died of cancer in 1929 and didn't find the missing piece to his discoveries.
8 years later, niacin or vitamin B3 (plentiful in vegetables and meat), would be that missing piece.
The scientific community did not accept Goldberger's trial due to a lack of scientific and molecular evidence. If I had been a member of the scientific community at the time, not only I would have rejected the theory, but also encouraged more invastigations to be made following Goldberger's trail so as to get to the bottom of the problem.
Besides the sucess of Goldberger, scientific community claimed that the pellagra outbreak was a product of the region's widespread proverty. And Goldberger never discovered the exact nutrient deficiency that caused pellagra, that was a huge flaw in his theory.
The scientific community did not accept Goldberger theory about the origin of the Pellagra disease. Although Goldberger demonstrated through the prisoners, the cause of this serious pathology. He showed that the lack of the vitamin B3 in their diets would make appear pellagra. The scientific community did not accepted Goldberger evidences, and sad that his study had errors that could not be ignored.