AMR is inevitable. As people keep finding ways to kill the microbes that infect us, those microbes, through evolutionary processes, will mutate to counteract them.
The UK’s report, A review of Antimicrobial Resistance, is a well-considered blueprint of a financially viable way forward. While it may not find its way to your nightstand, it should be required reading for our legislatures.
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Karl Meltzer's newest feat, setting the land speed record traversing the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, was unquestionably remarkable -- and newsworthy. Yet among its media coverage, two of the most prominent reports played up the angle that one particular aspect of his achievement — the ultra runner's food consumption during his historic dash — was in some way bizarre. However, for the most part, that was just not the case.
For the second time this year, the EPA has published a report placing glyphosate in the "not likely to be carcinogenic to humans" category.
Claims that the “the science isn’t settled” with regard to climate change are symptomatic of a large body of ignorance about how science works. So what is the scientific method, and why do so many people, sometimes including those trained in science, get it so wrong?
The first thing to understand is that there is no one method in science, no one way of doing things. This is intimately connected with how we reason in general.
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It might be wise to consider that while Dr. Amir Attaran was completely wrong in his predictions that the Summer Olympics in Brazil might possibly lead to worldwide Zika virus transmission, there are reasons to believe that the Canadian professor's clarion call turned out to be notably, if inadvertently, beneficial to global health.
When most of us listen to music, we hear more or less the same thing. But not everyone. There are people who have extra-sensory abilities to hear what other cannot, and they're others who either can't, or can, but simply don't enjoy it.
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Zika: The mosquito-borne virus that causes microcephaly in newborns has taken the world by storm. To date, more than 80 travel-related Zika cases have been reported, with new information surfacing daily. And yet, we still know very little about the virus, but what we do know is concerning. For everything you need to know about the virus, we have compiled some of our reports below:
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) is threatening to sue Bayer Healthcare if they continue to advertise a multivitamin as a method of prevention against prostate cancer based on the fact that it contains selenium, a supplement whose prevention abilities have been thoroughly refuted.
This is a rare instance of harmony between ACSH scientists and CSPI lawyers - but after three decades they were bound to be right on a health issue one time.
We join CSPI in criticizing Bayer because they're right, though it undermines CSPI posturing that the pro-science community won't criticize industry if non-profits receive unrestricted grants from the private sector.