"The real debate here is whether we can solve public health problems by developing treatments like vaccines, antibiotics, or other drugs? Or whether we will solve these problems by strengthening people's immune systems through healthier habits?" says Gregg Girvan, a resident fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a Washington think tank. "And my response is, 'Why can we not acknowledge that there is truth in both positions?'"

Unfathomably dumb. I have grown little bacteria on plates and in broths. I've used cleaners and checked that they stopped growing. You can grow some tomorrow! They sell agar pre-poured on Amazon. The idea that you have to find some middle ground between the science that landed a clean shot against a horseman of the apocalypse and some asshole is absurd. If you want to help people, you'd consider the damage that miasma does TO HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE PEOPLE WHO STUDY IT.