It's Friday, December 6th, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Chris Mooney.

And I'm Andrea Viscontas. Each week we bring you a new in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

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So, Chris, right at the start of the show, I want to thank the many new listeners that have

tuned in to our podcast over the past

two months. We've only been on the air for a few months. And we are absolutely stunned and thrilled

that so many people have found us and listened and even, you know, given us some, some lovely reviews.

Yes. Let me just add to that. We've got scores of great iTunes reviews. Thank you. You folks have tweeted and Facebooked our shows just a lot and going forward. I want to say we're going to work very hard to bring you the brand of insightful interviewing and commentary that will not only reward the investment you're making in us, but we hope that you simply won't be able to find elsewhere. So welcome aboard. And thanks for listening. So for today's interview,

I wanted to follow up with Marin McKenna. She's a journalist and an author whose beat is

public health and food policy. But she's also known colloquially as the scary disease girl because she specializes

in the coverage of infectious diseases. She has two books on the subject. One is called

Superbug about the fatal menace of Mercer and the other is called Beating Back the Devil. And it

chronicles her time when she was embedded in the investigative unit of the Center for Disease Control.

She just published a piece with Medium in which she covers the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

And she paints a pretty scary future in which we no longer have access to antibiotics.

If you count back to the earliest identification of antibiotics in 1928, for 85 years, they have

been solving the problem of infectious disease in a way that's really unique in human history,

and people assume that those antibiotics are always going to be there.

Unfortunately, they're wrong.

Indre, my late grandfather

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