There was collusion: Microbes in inflammatory bowel disease

Serre-Yu Wong; Ken Cadwell

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1007215

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There was collusion: Microbes in inflammatory bowel disease

Serre-Yu Wong,

Affiliations Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-4123

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Ken Cadwell

* E-mail: Ken.Cadwell@med.nyu.edu

Affiliations Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5860-0661

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There was collusion: Microbes in inflammatory bowel disease

Serre-Yu Wong,
Ken Cadwell

Published: September 20, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007215

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80 years of research and no answer

Posted by markj on 28 Sep 2018 at 23:41 GMT

It is startling to see that people with these diseases cannot expect relief anytime soon, and that research just goes on year after year. Now we have to factor in microbiome, about which much is still unknown. This is not encouraging. What is more discouraging is that this paper brought in Andrew Wakefield and anti-vaccine movements, without understanding that research in that field is not only lacking but prevented. Until we know what the cause is for autism, we should not take anything off the table. We can study IBD for 80 years without result, but autism research is hobbled and denigrated.

It is good to see that this author, though, has shown what IBD areas still need investigating. Humans are very handicapped when it comes to unraveling the mysteries of disease. A little humility is required for the honest researcher.

No competing interests declared.

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80 years of research and no answer

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