How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.
In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story…
Seem like peanut allergies were once rare and now everyone has them?
Surgeon, professor Marty Makary examines damage wrought when medicine closes ranks around inaccurate dogma.Terry Murphy (Harvard Gazette)