The Wallach Revolution

The Citizens Committee for Better Medicine is proud to present “The Wallach Revolution – (An Unauthorized Biography of a Medical Genius)”. The book is now available and chronicles the challenges, successes, and unique perspective of Dr. Joel D Wallach, a true pioneer in the field of science-based, clinically verified medical nutrition. (No portion of the content on this site may be exhibited, used or reproduced by any means without express written permission of the publisher.) Click HERE to get your copy of this brand new book!

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Knocked Down, Wallach Stands Up

No doubt the management at Yerkes had no idea who they were dealing with when they sacked the newly hired veterinary pathologist Joel D. Wallach. They did not understand his history and what made him tick. They likely did not know that he was a consummate fighter with unrelenting drive who acquired what he had not by a privileged birth or a hand out but by hard work. They did not know that he would never relent, would never accept defeat, and would overcome any barrier put in his way.

The process of getting a graduate degree in the sciences is often one that is humbling, forcing the student to conform to the mental framework and dictates of his or her academic master. That old school view holds sway and is rarely upset. Innovation is regulated so that it conforms to what the tenured regard as appropriate. Although Wallach had proven himself academically brilliant, he had not been reduced to hold a slovenly regard for the views of his academic elders.

In academia, as well as in the real world, discovery is ordinarily brought about by iconoclasts, those who view much of the same facts and information through different eyes, eyes that perceive new paradigms, new ways of connecting the information that provide explanations that previously eluded leaders in science. Joel D. Wallach is precisely that kind of iconoclastic thinker. He perceived nutritional deficiency origins to disease that others never perceived. He was able to identify disease states across species lines that eluded all others until his arrival. He was able to engage in comparative pathology in ways never undertaken before precisely because he had discovered a new paradigm linking nutrition with disease and disease across specie lines.

Arrogant, those who ran Yerkes simply did not expect that Joel D. Wallach would ever find a way out of obscurity after they banished him. They thought he would become just another invisible casualty of a wooden system that would not accept innovative ideas which upset the personal interests of academic superiors and the conventional medical wisdom.

Knocked Down, Wallach Stands Up

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