[...] In 2013, researchers at Michigan State University carried out a thankless, if mildly creepy, study. They observed how more than 3,500 residents of their college town used the sink at various restrooms after they carried out their business.
Some 10 percent of people observed chose not to wash their hands at all, which is simply not an acceptable way to end a trip to the bathroom. But even the vast majority of people who tried to wash their hands managed to totally flub the proper routine. Almost a quarter of people washed their hands without soap, for instance. And only 5 percent washed their hands for at least 15 seconds or longer, which is actually lower than the 20-second minimum of handwashing recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://gizmodo.com/in-a-world-of-mrsa-and-superfungi-you-need-to-start-wa-1833889953
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 12 2019, @01:23PM (1 child)
Broad pollution levels != antibiotic abuse. Sounds like the paper confirms the AC's claim.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday April 12 2019, @02:36PM
Only if you take their claim to be a generic null hypothesis of a grossly oversimplified version of my claim.
But they're pretty clearly asserting, in the context of the conversation, that hospitals are at fault. That is not in line with the state of the literature. Even being generous that they're merely trying to refute what I said, they did intentionally ignore that I qualified what I said with phrases like "dominate sources" and "Of course hospitals have them, and of course some strains originate in hospitals".
So their refutation was a "here's an sort-of not-really exception to a thing you've said can't be overgeneralized"