The bacteriologist Mary Barber showed as early as 1947 that Staphylococcus aureus was evolving to select for penicillin resistance, writing the next year that “the present widespread and often indiscriminate use of penicillin, particularly
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― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“Ironically, this trait of being rigid and not being open to dissenting views is known as being liberal in India.”
― Sanghi Who Never Went To A Shakha
― Sanghi Who Never Went To A Shakha
“You don’t think everyone actually lives, do you? Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.”
― Falling
― Falling
“If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.”
― Mad Honey
― Mad Honey
“Five decades of work. It’s strange when you think about it, because if men were actually interested in reducing abortion, it didn’t need to take fifty years. At any point, men could have eliminated elective abortions in a very short amount of time—a matter of weeks—without ever touching an abortion law, without legislating about women’s bodies, without even mentioning women. All men had to do was ejaculate responsibly. They chose not to. Today, they continue to choose not to.”
― Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
― Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
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