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> Antibiotics kill bacteria, across the board, indiscriminately. That is not true. You're probably thinking of broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are not the on
by generalizations 4y ago
> Antibiotics kill bacteria, across the board, indiscriminately.
That is not true. You're probably thinking of broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are not the only kind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-spectrum_antibiotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-spectrum_antibiotic
- spywaregorilla 4y agoThis is the second time you've posted a link to wikipedia that you don't seem to really understand. Yes, it is true that there are narrow spectrum antibiotics. However, it is normative to assume that broad spectrum antibiotics are the things we refer to when we refer to antibiotics in the context of overuse fostering antibiotic resistance. You can't blindly give narrow spectrum antibiotics and expect it to do anything. It's the broad spectrum stuff that you see everywhere. Things like cattle especially. The fact that there are other more niche types of antibiotics doesn't materially change anything about the argument being made here.