Posted on 10/26/2013 10:13:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared in an interview with PBS that the age of antibiotics has come to an end. 'For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about "The end of antibiotics, question mark?"' said Dr Arjun Srinivasan. 'Well, now I would say you can change the title to "The end of antibiotics, period.”' The associate director of the CDC sat down with Frontline over the summer for a lengthy interview about the growing problem of antibacterial resistance. Srinivasan, who is also featured in a Frontline report called 'Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria,' which aired Tuesday, said that both humans and livestock have been overmedicated to such a degree that bacteria are now resistant to antibiotics.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This is pure bull.
What you mean? Haven’t you heard of MRSA?
Not to mention illegals bringing crapola into the country that we had eradicated and doctors giving out antibiotics for every little thing.
The bugs have won?
Uh, the illegals are not over-medicated, and the crap they bring in is old-school.
The solution, of course, is to not allow the peasants to use antibiotics, so what’s the difference?
They aren’t over-medicated, they bring in diseases!
What I find stupid is his saying that this is from people over medicating themselves. Last time I checked, we needed a dr prescription to get antibiotics.
Time for a Manhattan Project?
That we don’t have to develop new vaccines for . . . listen, illegal aliens can be blamed for a lot of things, but over-medication leading to resistance is not one of them.
Actually, fecal pills will be the future....and, no, I am not kidding.
Saw that article.......eeeewwww!
“Landing and moving about on the moon offers so many serious problems for
human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them.”
— Science Digest, 1948
“You’ll never make it — four groups are out.”
— Anonymous record company executive to the Beatles, 1962
“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible,
commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development
of which we need waste little time dreaming.”
— Lee De Forest, 1926
“Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine.”
— R.S. Lambert, Canadian Broadcaster, 1936
[Hey, give him credit: he was right!]
“The actual building of roads devoted to motor cars is not
for the near future, in spite of many rumours to that effect.”
— Harper’s Weekly, 1902
“The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy;
and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of
course, come into as common use as the bicycle.”
— Literary Digest, 1899
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to
breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
— Dr. Dionysus Lardner, 1793-1859
“What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of
locomotives travelling twice the speed of stagecoaches?”
— Quarterly Review, 1825
“Railroad Carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 mph by engines
which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and
snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops,
scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty
certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck
speed.”
— Martin Van Buren
“Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth decimal place.”
— A. A. Michelson, 1894
[On the occasion of the dedication of a physics laboratory in Chicago,
noting that all the more important physical laws had been discovered]
“I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the
existence of atoms and other such dogmas.”
— Ernst Mach (1838-1916)
“Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months.” — Max Born, 1928
“Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot
reach the Earth. For Birkeland’s theories to be correct, the existance of
such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary...and this
assumption is untenable.”
— Arthur Schuster, on Kristian Birkeland’s theory of what causes
aurorae. The “cathode rays” are now called the solar wind.
“It seems as if we may also be forced to conclude that the supposed
connexion between magnetic storms and sun-spots is unreal, and that the
seeming agreement between periods has been a mere coincidence.”
— Lord Kelvin, 1892
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
— Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
“Radio has no future.”
— Lord Kelvin
“Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.”
— Lord Kelvin
“Flight by machines heavier than air is impractical and insignificant, if
not utterly impossible.”
— Simon Newcomb, Director, U.S. Naval Observatory, 1902
Sambucol, and Grapefruit seed extract internally, and Tea Tree oil in our cleaning products. No antibacterial soaps or cleaners in our house. We haven’t been sick in years.
I can imagine a number of scenarios in which a few billion people die. In some scenarios, this would be pure tragedy. In other scenarios, the Powers That Be might declare is “real unfortunate” *cough* *cough* *cough*
Yeah, and wasn’t it the CEO of IBM who said personal computers would NEVER come about???
This reminds me of the Patent and Trademark Office declaring, maybe 100 years ago, that everything that was ever going to be invented had been invented...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.