Wakefield and the colostrum nostrum

[Rolfe]

Dr. William Smith Tillett - a medical big gun in the 30s and 40s, encouraged Lawrence to begin his career by determining whether this sort of cellular transfer could be accomplished in man using viable white blood cells.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416355/ (My professors!)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13233344 (Lawrence, making something work in humans)

Note that this is a direct transfer - a long way from the convoluted process described by Wakers of immunizing mice, harvesting lymphocytes, running it through cell cultures, then into pregnant goats, and extracting who knows what from the colustrum.

I didn't see that edit at the time. That's really, really interesting. It just seems that whatever was being transferred wasn't antigen-specific after all. Which Wakefield and his cronies never figured.

Rolfe.