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#166 — The Plague Years

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Cost of Antibiotics

Every time we start looking for superbugs, we end up finding much more than we expected. Part of it is getting better diagnostics so that we can know what we're dealing with. Penicillin was a compound produced by a fungus; many new antibiotics come from nature. The antibiotic market is broken and we should be asking every politician to fix it.

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