There’s a lot of red flags in the article for me as well. I’m genuinely amenable to the idea that mass antibiotics is bad because it makes intuitive sense. But

There’s a lot of red flags in the article for me as well. I’m genuinely amenable to the idea that mass antibiotics is bad because it makes intuitive sense. But the article starts out with “For decades…” and then the relevant plot has the X-axis start in 2012 for some reason. I strongly suspect, but don’t have time to confirm, that if you extended that axis back to, say, the 90s you’d see more nuanced trends that would threaten the doom-porn nature of the standard Vox “explainer”.