Experts have been warning for some time that our antibiotic use is unsustainable and now the UK's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, is calling
for urgent action worldwide against what she is calling «a catastrophic threat.»
One should be able to look to the academies
worldwide for an open, balanced, and full discussion of these matters, with engineering - level integrity when contemplating what
actions to take: in practice, the level of «post-normal science» (where the «facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high, and decisions
urgent») gets in the way.