"Prediction by Paul W. Ewald
Professor of biology, Amherst College
Big Idea: "Highly damaging chronic diseases - atherosclerosis, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, most cancers ... will, in the next 50 years, be accepted as caused by infection."
Caveat: "[A] proportion of the old guard will have to retire or expire, and a sufficient number of young people ... must mature into positions of influence, to tip the balance of expert opinion.""