Maybe the antibacterial craze will end now...

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » June 18, 2006, 10:45 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060617/ap_ ... rty_rats_8

Gritty rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy antiseptic labs, two studies indicate. The lesson for humans: Clean living may make us sick.

OMG breaking news! Though Lewis Thomas dicussed this at length in Lives of a Cell (1974). Of course the plan is now continue encouraging the use of antibacterial everything and then the pharmaceutical companies can sell us contaminants to boost our immune system artificially.

FFS if you have kids let them get dirty...

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » June 18, 2006, 2:43 pm

finally, my life of filth and squalor is vindicated

Sendarie · Post by **Sendarie** » June 18, 2006, 3:47 pm

kyoukan wrote:finally, my life of filth and squalor is vindicated

Trailer parks worldwide rejoice with beer, fanfaire and lots of old X-mas lights still hanging.

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » June 18, 2006, 9:05 pm

I could have told you this based exclusively on my observation that dirty motherfuckers just never die. Although sometimes they smell like it.