14 April

Joshua Lederberg was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who questioned our ‘war’ on germs. He was one of the biologists who realised that we need to look at germs as part of an ecology, rather than always trying to kill them. And that germs don’t actually have much to gain by killing us, we’re their hosts, they need us to survive too. That last insight alone changes fundamentally ideas about anti-bacterial practices and vaccination. His most famous summary of ideas is at: http://www.univie.ac.at/hygiene-aktuell/lederberg.htm