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Scientifically it's nearly impossible to prove things. However, scientific evidence supporting the antibiotic-driven increase in antibiotic resistant "superbugs" has been found.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/19/superbug...

Antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance genes, have existed for an uncountable number of megayears. Antibiotic use by humans is probably not creating many new antibiotic resistance genes, if any at all. But is is driving the increase in bacteria that contain these genes, as well as encouraging the horizontal transmission of antibiotic resistance genes and the accumulation of multiple such genes in so-called "superbugs".

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22757-1

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30248271/

https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1...



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