New Age Ideology and Helicobacter

It is common for advocates of “alternative medicine” to cite the recent discovery that the bacterium Helicobacter causes peptic ulcers as though it supports them (this is a typical example). On the other hand, the traditional treatment for ulcers (stress reduction and bland diets) was more “alternative” than today's treatments (cruelly persecuting potentially innocent bacteria).

By the way, on earlier occasions when The Establishment was wrong, were the New Agers of the day the people who discovered that?