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> Summing up, antibiotics are not making us generally ill.

Sure, as a people. But antibiotics are crude instruments, and we have just started funding research into understanding the human microbiome.

It seems like you wasted your time talking about lowering mortality rates and using all those citations when the article sets itself up on that concession.

Most of this article discusses the adverse affects that antibiotics may have on microbes that inhabit our bodies. What is your response to that?

Let me remind you that your anecdote about exercising and living healthy as your way of beating obesity, is just that, an anecdote.



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