Guiding much of modern medicine is the “germ theory” of disease—a framework that led to the development of the first antibiotics in the 1940s. Though credited with saving millions from deadly ...

In the Western world, we are desperately obsessed with killing things off that we feel can threaten our livelihood. Whether it is germs, terrorists, or the next-door neighbor, we seek to eliminate ...

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In the United States, I am increasingly seeing people reject scientific consensus. Among the most dangerous forms of this rejection is the resurgence of germ denial: the belief that microbes are not a ...