Sorry, Iains but you're all at sea. The original offending sentence contains an error of conflation. And I never said that antimicrobial THERAPY will "work on a corpse" or anything remotely like it. Antimicrobial washes will kill germs on dead meat. That's what this fuss is all about - using the antimicrobial substance chlorine to kill germs on dead chickens during their processing. There's a possibility that such antimicrobials engender resistance - but resistance to antimicrobials used in that manner, NOT to antibiotics, which are, quite simply, NOT used in that manner. That's what was wrong with your sentence. It doesn't matter whether it was Crick, Watson or Einstein who said it - it was a mistake. If it's wrong it's wrong. The Pope sez there's a God, and he's wrong too, and he's the Pope. Instead of lashing out in order to preserve what's left of your shredded ego, go and look it up. And by that I don't mean spending the next hour trying to find something that confirms your misunderstanding.