Word: nietzscheian
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...Infections are becoming harder to suppress because bacteria operate under the Nietzscheian principle: what doesn't kill them makes them stronger. As germs reproduce, some mutate, randomly developing genetic traits that give them some protection against treatments that were effective against their progenitors. (Viruses, which cause the common cold, are impervious to antibiotics.) By administering antibiotics at even the slightest symptom, physicians and patients are multiplying the opportunities for stronger strains to flourish. Trouble has already appeared in the developed world: in the U.S., where experts estimate that half of all antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary, about 90,000 people died...
...narrator kept the stray bits of Greek, Chinese, Persian, Nietzscheian, Freudian, and existentialist philosophy together, and still appeared on the screen long enough to keep the picture together...
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