Discretizations

Posted on May 7, 2012 by David Oliver
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Scientists are mobilizing in response to the emerging threat of hypervirulent strains of drug resistant hospital acquired infections.

Finding a way to keep microbes from setting up shop on fomites, which all too often harbor pathogens and facilitate their spread, is an obvious place to start.

One promising approach is to coat surfaces with silver or copper nanoparticles - and it seems to be working.

All good, right? Wrong. Some people are very much alarmed and want the reins pulled back on science. (Be sure to read the comments if you want to get the point).

But aren't microbes good? Some sure are and the only way to have a sound immune system for life is to be exposed to them ASAP - and the window may close within a week or two of birth.

That's not what we're talking about though. We're talking about the ones that want to kill you and feast on your decaying flesh.

Meanwhile, somewhere up in Colorado, a court thinks that "differential diagnosis" is a way to find a novel cause rather than to discriminate between established causes. Too bad it rests upon the twin fallacies of appeal to ignorance and post hoc ergo propter hoc when used in such a fashion.

 

 

 

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