Just a reminder that we don’t have new antibiotics because it’s so difficult to develop them. We don’t have new ones because they don’t know make very much money for companies. Antibiotics are too important to leave up to capitalism.

It would be better if they gave their AI the task of finding alternatives to antibiotics.

While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it’s gone you can’t get it back. (Apr 2019).