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Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org)
guises writes: By making a giant petri dish out of bands of increasingly antibiotic-laced agar, a couple of microbiologists have created a means to watch bacterial evolution as it happens: colonies introduced to the dish expand to fill the areas in which they can survive and then mutate and spread into the areas in which they can not. It takes only eleven days for the bacteria to evolve sufficient resistance to survive in an area with a thousand times the concentration of antibiotics that would have killed the original colonies. And it makes a pretty neat video.
Evolution doesn't exist. The antibiotics just lose their effectiveness over time. These "scientists" are going to hell for preaching falsehoods.
Yeah, but how many of them survived the incinerator? Or just pour some bleach into the dish.
It wasn't wasted. They just created a new condiment for Chipotle restaurants.
That depends on how slowly they were fed into the incinerator or how slowly the concentration of bleach was raised.
it's a good thing that nobody's dumb enough to routinely dose cattle and chicken and other livestock with anti-biotics. that would enable resistant bugs to evolve and spread everywhere.