MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show July 2, 2019
In 1928 in his lab at st. Marys, Alexander Fleming had a very fortuitous and ultimately worldchanging encounter with dirty dishes. He had been working with a fairly nasty strain of staff bacteria in his lab when he found quite by accident that one of the culture plates he had been working with i guess had been neglected or somehow crosscontaminated. In any case, it had started to grow a bit of mold. Under normal circumstances, that might be cause for regret. Oh, no, this is spoiled, or you might be mildly grossed out. That would be cause for throwing that out or cleaning up that culture plate....