Tags: bacteria, tuberculosis
Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in popular science writing:
"[Mycobacterium tuberculosis] is perfectly content to spend years in the human body, making itself inconspicuous as the infection slowly spreads, until it at last reveals itself to its human host…
the bacterium, unaware of humanity's inherent inconstancy, persevered and was well suited for the lapse in attention."
Thomas Goetz
Goetz, T. (2013). The Remedy. Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the quest to cure tuberculosis. Gotham Books.
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