Well, Bugger Me...

Barry Marshall is a star. In the conservative world of medicine, Marshall has achieved international celebrity status for helping to revolutionise understanding and treatment of ulcers, not traditionally a subject high on sex appeal. Just consider his publication record: he has been splashed by the New Yorker, Time magazine, Reader's Digest, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and now Michelle Malkin.

So what did the Australian scientist and his mate J Robbin Warren do achieve such note, acclaim and a Nobel Prize?

Well, we'll Michelle tell the story:

The two Australians won the prize for their discovery that Helicobacter pylori--not stress and spicy foods--are responsible for many ulcers...few believed the duo until Marshall swallowed broth containing the microbe to prove it causes disease.

It also proves one more thing - those Western Australians are tough (or mad), (or both).

-- Nora