Melissa Shepherd

“Echoing Fleming’s warning, theorists of emerging diseases argue that antibiotics are a “nonrenewable resource” whose duration of efficacy is biologically limited.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Hypocrisy in search of social acceptance erodes your self-respect.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“Alexander Fleming issued a prophetic warning. Penicillin, he advised, needed to be administered with care because the bacteria susceptible to it were likely to develop resistance. The selective pressure of so powerful a medicine would make it inevitable.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present