If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you’re implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we’re eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation. Barry Marshall Read Quote
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem. Barry Marshall Read Quote
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas. Barry Marshall Read Quote
If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants – and potentially a lot of allergy issues. Barry Marshall Read Quote
I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer. Barry Marshall Read Quote
Everything that’s supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there’s a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause. Barry Marshall Read Quote
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat. Barry Marshall Read Quote
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren’t understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis – all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in. Barry Marshall Read Quote
You can always find stress in someone’s life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it’s, ‘Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.’ Barry Marshall Read Quote
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one’s life. Barry Marshall Read Quote
