MANHATTAN CRUDE : in an age (and a war) consumed with Purity, the dying Dr Dawson's gift of crowd-sourced 'impure' natural penicillin was not just a global lifesaver. It was also a window into a new way of looking at the world.
Too many popular science journalists badly mis-report the reasons why bacterial resistance to a brand new antibiotic can be widespread in even the remotest parts of the world only a few years later.