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Can you provide more info about this? That medical researchers are actively avoiding looking for cures for diseases? It just screams "baseless conspiracy theory" to me. And what do antibiotics have to do with it? As far as I know, antibiotic resistant bacteria are the result of factory farms pumping animals full of antibiotics, and patients simply not completing the full course of drugs once they feel better.

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It was a comment in a Frontline episode[1]. If my memory serves me correctly, one of the top researchers claimed that they could conquor this problem, but nearly every drug company has cut funding for antibiotics research, as it doesn't result in long-term usage.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmar...

The biggest reason why drug companies don't invest in antibiotics is because if you come up with the best antibiotic ever, it will never get used because docs will save it for the sickest patients.

Hence, you'll never make much money on an antibiotic and likely not even turn a profit.

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