The discovery of penicillin, one of the world’s first antibiotics, marked a turning point in human history. Conspiracy theories, which explain important events as secret plots by powerful and malevolent groups, are increasingly popular. These theories can impact public and personal health, democratic citizenship, and even political issues. Psychological factors such as dark triad, propensity to share false information online, and non-partisan/ideological political beliefs like populism and Manicheanism contribute to their popularity.
Health-related conspiracy theories, which interact heavily with belief in health-related misinformation and high levels of misinformation, have been found to negatively impact health behaviors concerning infectious diseases. Sanitation and vaccinations have saved and prolonged more lives than medications, surgeries, and other treatments. A new study has found no evidence that people’s beliefs in conspiracy theories increase over time, and they can even change their minds.
It is difficult to keep a conspiracy under wraps, as sooner or later, one of the conspirators will blow its cover. For mental health practitioners, understanding and mitigating the vulnerability that a mental disorder creates to extremists is crucial. Believers claim that pharmaceutical companies have already found one cure for all cancers, but they hide it because they can make it more expensive.
In conclusion, conspiracy theories are a growing concern due to psychological biases and distrust of official sources. It is essential to address these issues and promote public health and democratic citizenship to prevent the spread of conspiracy theories and protect public health.
📹 The accident that changed the world – Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu
Learn how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, and how the antibiotic has changed medicine and the treatment of infections.
📹 What If Penicillin Was Delayed? The Shocking Consequences! #Shorts
Alexander Fleming had first discovered penicillin by accident in 1928, but at that time believed it had little application. When Florey and his team recognised the potential of the discovery for combating bacterial infection, they faced the problem of how to manufacture penicillin in sufficient quantities to be of use. Heatley, although the junior member of the team, possessed a natural gift for ingenuity and invention. It was he who suggested transferring the active ingredient of penicillin back into water by changing its acidity, thus purifying the penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey who carried out the first clinical trials of penicillin in 1941 at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a police constable from Oxford. The patient started to recover, but subsequently died because Florey was unable, at that time, to make enough penicillin. It was Florey and Chain who actually made a useful and effective drug out of penicillin, after the task had been abandoned as too difficult. From Wikipedia Florey Chain and Heatley
Another reason for the rise in antibiotic resistant bacteria is due to some not finishing what has been prescribed. By not finishing the prescription entirely, not all of the bacteria are done away with, so those surviving bacteria build up a resistance to whatever almost wiped them out. When receiving antibiotics it’s very important to take the prescription the whole way through even if you don’t have anymore signs or symptoms.
It’s because of him I’m alive right now. I’m currently in the hospital recieving intravenous antibiotics to help me get over pneumonia and severe sepsis plus I have bacteria in my heart valve and they have me on extremely potent antibiotics to help kill the bacteria in my body. I’ve been getting the antibiotics for about a month and a half and I still have three weeks to go. But because of his mistake leaving out that petri dish, I’m slowly but surely recovering. Funny how I came across this article though just perusal some other ted ed articles and then this one gets recommended to me so of course I had to click.
One of the few times I am part of the 1% Penicillin and related β-lactam antibiotics give me a severe rash, eczema, and upset stomach. But I can also enjoy cheeses that contain P. Camemberti (Camemberts, brie, cambozola) and P. Roqueforti (roquefort, Gorgonzola, almost all blue cheeses) without issue. And yes, this has been confirmed in adulthood for me. Usually the doctor has to go for Cephalospirn C and some other antibiotic to make it work.
Penicillin saved my father’s life when he was 20 years old in 1943. As a consequence, he became so enthusiastic about antibiotics, he popped a pill if he ever sneezed more than once (for real). In his late 60’s, he contracted an infection while in a hospital for a minor procedure, and no amount of sophisticated modern antibiotics were able to save his life. As a consequence, I steer clear of antibiotics (propolis included), unless it is a case of life and death.
Working with Alexander Fleming in his lab was a lab assistant, later a well-known ob-gyn, Jack Suchet. His sons include John Suchet, the radio host, and David Suchet, the actor and creator of “Poirot” on TV among other varied roles onstage and off, and a great evangelist as well. Among Jack Suchet’s “children” meaning that he was the ob-gyn attending, were Anthony Horowitz, who came up with the show title “Midsommer Murders” and created “Foyle’s War”.
It’s ridiculous how much doctors push antibiotics on you. I had to get a boil on my finger lanced and the doc wanted me to take them. I asked instead if there was something I could do to keep it clean. He’d already cleaned the area with iodine, and told me to soak it in antibacterial soap for 10 minutes at home. I don’t even think that was necessary, I could have just kept the area clean with regular soap and water. We treat our bodies like they have no immune system to begin with. I really think the hygene hypothesis is right in some cases. Obviously you need antibacterials in more severe cases, but we need to be more like Europe when it comes to stuff like this.
This of course was ‘serendipity’, just as Newton’s apple and so many other surprise results or insights. Penicillin came to fruition via the cooperation of England and the USA. This had an effect on the war(WW2) also. Though we credited Germany as being advanced, in medicine they were far behind us. They had little or no penicillin, knew little of blood transfusions/banks, and other innovations.
Wouldn’t the localized pockets of rbc’s leaked into interstitial fluid eventually clear in reconstructing the capillaries, cleared rbc’s could be considered damaged rbc’s in efferent circulatory system. Possible alveoli swells constricting nearby capillaries, could alveoli rupture? Can you do a article about rbc pathway after damage considering the interstitial fluid tends towards the efferent path of lymph fluid and if rbc’s are carried through nodes next entering r. Ventricle?
The history of science is full of serendipity. 🔬🔭 The chances for favorable serendipity are increased if one studies an animal that is not one of the common laboratory species. Atypical animals, or preparations, force one to use non-standard approaches and non-standard techniques, and even to think nonstandard ideas. My own preference is to seek out species which show some extreme of adaptation. Such organisms often force one to abandon standard methods and standard points of view. Almost inevitably they lead one to ask new questions, and most importantly in trying to comprehend their special and often unusual adaptations one often serendipitously stumbles upon new insights. —George A Bartholomew 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌
A particularly annoying and frankly quite problematic thing they didn’t mention about bacteria developping resistance is that bacteria have the ability to share genes (information in the DNA) with other bacteria, even from different species. This trait can be useful (for example helping the human body digest specific things) but in this case overtreated begnin bacteria could give resistance to much more dangerous bacteria.
Imagine just having this defense mechanism so it’s taken out of you and now it’s become useless so you yourself are now defensless. In all reality tho, could we maybe create a mutant from this mold that could create a new type of bacteria killing drug if we force it to evolve alongside penicillin resitant bacteria?
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Brothers and Sisters, God loves us so much that He sent His Son Jesus Christ for us to save us from our sins, and he bled and died on a cross for us to redeem us from death, and to gain life everlasting, for those who put their trust in him. And what’s more, he has risen, and is willing to call you to repentance (correction) and as his witness, by his grace indeed. “For it is by grace you are saved, through faith”. Jesus loves you, God cares for you!