Antibiotics are often hailed as one of the greatest discoveries of medical science. They are credited with saving scores of soldiers in the World War II era and millions of lives since then. However, there are major problems with this story that has been promulgated by the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry. In this video we look into the history of penicillin and the state of the scientific evidence, including recent concerns about ‘antimicrobial resistance’. Are antibiotics ever useful and why do they seem to work sometimes if there are fatal flaws in the germ theory of disease? References Virus Mania – 3rd English Edition, 2021 A Farewell to Virology (Expert Edition), Dr Mark Bailey, 2022 “An Address on the Development of Surgery and the Germ Theory”, Dr Lawson Tait, BMJ, 1887 The Circuit Riders: Rockefeller Money and the Rise of Modern Science, Gerald Jonas, 1989 “Big Money meets Big Science”, New York Times, 1989 “Interventions for treating gas gangrene”, cochrane.org, 2015 “5 Spectacular Fails From Germ Theory”, Dr Sam Bailey, 9 Sep 2023 “What We Weren’t Taught About Gonorrhea”, Dr Sam Bailey, 17 May 2022 “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis”, The Lancet, Jan 2022 “Anti-inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Effects of Antibiotics and Their Use in Dermatology”, Indian Journal of Epidemiology, 2016