Antibiotic resistance: The last resort
Things like this make me increasingly sad for our priorities as a society.<p>I realize that not everyone can be a biochemist and do antibiotics research, but we've reached a place where our most technologically savvy people are frittering their talents on food delivery services and cat videos.  I have an advanced degree in biochemistry, and it's still basically impossible to get work doing antibiotics development.  There's no money in it.  I work on websites, because that's where I need to be to earn a living.  If I could get venture capital to do speculative work developing new classes of antibiotics, I'd do that in a heartbeat.<p>What's the point?  I don't really know.  Rome is burning, I guess.  Bring on the bread and the circuses.<p>(Postscript:  $200M is considered a big initiative in this space.  We spend BILLIONS on niche diseases:  <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323975004578499324161473326.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732397500457849...</a>)