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Subject:	Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:35:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: > Well, on that I agree completely. I see it as connected to the swifferization > of the culture and its antibacterial obsession, as if that's a fight that can > ever be won. I'll go farther. Swifferization, overmedication, and anti-bacterial soaps strike me as bad things. We're training (via natural selection) the bacteria to be hardier. Strikes me as a bad long term strategy.

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		Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
(...) Yes and no. There has been some interesting research into this (I think I saw it on Scientific American Frontiers, but I'm not positive about that), and what they've found is that the more hardy germs become in terms of surviving all those (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
(...) Heh. I've calmed down some since yesterday, so maybe I should cry "hyperbole" as my defense and leave it at that... (...) Well, on that I agree completely. I see it as connected to the swifferization of the culture and its antibacterial (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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