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Houshalter comments on Stupid Questions February 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Gondolinian 02 February 2015 12:36AM

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Comment author: Houshalter 04 February 2015 01:19:27PM 1 point [-]

Only one half of antibiotic use is in agriculture, and they are not the kind that are used in human medicine.

OP is probably using a low dose which is worse, since it won't kill everything and encourages resistance.

Also they are exposing human pathogens to it, which is possibly more dangerous.