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...members of any species of pathogen, those individuals that do withstand the assault did so because they had a natural resistance to the chemical. It's the same phenomenon that breeds pesticide-resistant insects on farms. What's more, since many antibiotics wipe out numerous species of bacteria at once, the drugs inadvertently create a nice, clear field in which those that do survive can thrive...
...with one study suggesting that people taking the type of medications marketed as Prilosec and Prevacid are almost three times as likely to suffer a C. diff attack as non-users, and those taking the type marketed as Pepcid or Zantac may be twice as likely. It seems that bacteria don't like stomach acid any better than consumers do, and when you suppress it chemically the bugs have a better chance of surviving...
...That's not to say there isn't a tiny handful of actual scientists who back ID. Yes, evolution explains a lot, they say, but some things-the eye, for example, or the whiplike tails on some bacteria-are just too complex to have evolved. To which the vast majority of biologists say nonsense. We don't have remotely enough information to make such a statement. Moreover, if ID is a valid theory on its own, it has to make testable predictions. "It's too complex to explain" is not a prediction...
...live in a dirty world. Microbes fill the air, crowd our pores and carpet everything we touch. Shake a hand or open a door, and you leave with a menagerie of hitchhikers and parasites--yeast, bacteria--clinging to your palms. As any hypochondriac will tell you, cleaning up is a quixotic quest. The only hygienic surface is one that sterilizes itself. And how many such surfaces exist...
Lots of them, if AgION Technologies has its way. The privately held firm produces an antimicrobial material that gives anything in which it is embedded an enduring resistance to bacteria, yeast, algae and mold. AgION, which has raised $40.5 million in capital, works with manufacturers up and down the supply chain to incorporate its bug-busting stuff into everything from water filters to doorknobs and even the casing of a cell phone, the Motorola i870...