A fascinating piece about the complexity of the relations between a small derided bacteria and the human race – if you know the back story, you’ll know that a lone maverick research had to go to extraordinary lengths (infecting himself), to prove that removing Helicobacter pylori would cure ulcers. But it seems the story is far more complicated than that – and we’re reminded that we’re only just beginning to grasp the simple outlines of the astonishing complexity of biological systems.
But whoops, it seems we’d better not tell the rightwingers that, they probably won’t be able to handle it. A bit pop science, and over-simplistic, but it seems that conservatives are more startled by sudden noises than liberals. Curiously reported in the Daily Mail although I suppose it shows them again they are on the right track with the “scare ’em silly” style of journalism – you’ll all be murdered in your beds by knife-wielding youths, if you’re not blown up by Islamic terrorists….
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