Nobel Prize and hiding in public

A discovery that maybe in the "pulsar" category (hiding in plain sight) was the Nobel Prize announced yesterday. What makes this so interesting is the tremendous resistance, skepticism, and derision the winners got when they originally presented this idea to scientists who already knew without actual testing that ulcers were caused by stress and life-style.

Moral: Once your mind is made up, for better or worse, you become effectively blind to contrary evidence, and even actively hostile to those who present it.

From Nobelprize.org

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 goes to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease".