What's science ever done for us?

For better or for worse, major breakthroughs in science have changed the way we live.

"Today it is often forgotten that the challenge of antibiotic resistance was raised immediately the drugs were introduced. From the late 1940s, microbiologists and policy makers responded with attempts to restrict use through the prescription system and by the development of more robust drugs. Even then, the experts saw their measures as only partial solutions to a problem that was both medical and social. Yet in an age in which authority was increasingly distrusted, the warnings of pessimistic prophets were discounted by grateful patients and hurried practitioners alike. Only in the late 1990s was the emergence of resistant bacteria widely accepted as a global threat to be taken seriously." Click here to read the rest of a short history of antibiotics.

The goal of this group is to form our own opinions to answer the question "Will science save us or slay us?"