| Sigh. I have read all your comments -- including the doozy "all...without fallible men" -- and I will suggest that: A) If you are incredibly savvy, you can already sidestep government regulation by pursuing remedies outside the scope of what they control. B) Most people are not that savvy and, unfortunately, need the protection provided by government regulation. C) There is zero means to remove the fallibility of "men" from the equation. (I am a woman. As much as I would love to joke that things would be so much better if women ruled the world, the reality is that the fallibility of humankind is inescapable. Also -- cough -- Theranos.) D) Antibiotic resistance is not due to lazy bureaucrats. It is due to lazy humans. It's lazy humans all the way down. They are hardly confined to government. E) Even in alternative med circles, you get social pressure and people with a profit motive and conflict of interest and on and on. F) The path to solve this will never catch on. It is too much work. It can be done now. The research into how to break up biofilms is already at a useful stage, if you are sufficiently motivated. G) Gosh, I wish you would step away from this discussion. You aren't adding any value here. |