reminds me of the history of patients with alpha-gal allergies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy)

reminds me of the history of patients with alpha-gal allergies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy) and how they were pretty much shunned / gaslit because only a few people had experienced the symptoms. Apparently the only reason the link link between tick bits and the allergy was because the researcher studying the pheomenon got bitten by a tick and developed the allergy himself. There's a great Radiolab episode on this.