It is a long time period from our first paper in July 1999 in Allergy, but more than 15 years later there is now a huge list of papers.
When looking for potential paradigm shift in research, however, vitamin D is still largely ignored.
- Professional organizations that give legitimacy to the paradigm: NONE
- Dynamic leaders who introduce and purport the paradigm: FEW
- Journals and editors who write about the system of thought: FEW
- Government agencies who give credence to the paradigm: NONE
- Educators who propagate the paradigm’s ideas by teaching it to students: NONE
- Conferences conducted that are devoted to discussing ideas central to the paradigm: YES
- Media coverage: MINOR
- Lay groups, or groups based around the concerns of lay persons, that embrace the beliefs central to the paradigm: FEW
- Sources of funding to further research on the paradigm: NONE