> Only human beings have science labs and clinical research studies to come up with new defenses against the thoughtless, largely immobile threats from other li

> Only human beings have science labs and clinical research studies to come up with new defenses against the thoughtless, largely immobile threats from other living things We're giving bacteria (which reproduce rapidly and mutate quickly) the perfect natural science lab to mutate and select for antibiotic resistance. There are 10^14 bacterial cells in the human body vs only 10^13 human cells [1]. Their reproductive cycle is over one million times faster than ours. We're creating the perfect conditions for rapid evolution of these organisms. This system is executed by billions of billions of bacteria continuously and we're trying to combat that evolution with a few thousand humans in labs. It seems to me that the take-away here is we need better engineering of our own solutions and we need to find a way stop enabling this rapid evolution of bacteria. [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev.mi.31.100177.000543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev.mi.31.100177.000543