"Well, regardless of whether it's a legitimate affliction, the fact is that patients are suffering. And even if they do get one or two researchers publishing articles on it, the medical community isn't likely to much more than dismiss 'em until they reach some threshold of respectability. That's just how the establishment works, even with theories that turn out to be true. I mean, look at Ignaz Semmelweis, the man who proposed that doctors wash their hands to reduce the women who died after delivering. He ended up disregarded for decades."

At the mention of Snake's major, however, Heiji remembered that he didn't like this guy he'd just been merrily conversing with. Dammit. He looked away, mouth resolutely shut.