> When did journalists become biomedical experts?

When they write books on the subject? http://superbugthebook.com/

She seems to specialize in medical topics. I don't see any mention of official credentials, but that's not the only way to learn things.

From her biography

> She has won numerous journalism awards and held fellowships with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the East West Center, the Knight-Wallace Fellows of the University of Michigan, Harvard Medical School and the University of Maryland.

She isn't an MD or PhD, but when it comes to medical journalism, that's a pretty impressive list.

For what it's worth, journalists can and do talk to subject experts. Whether they quote their sources in a casual non-scientific article for Wired magazine is another thing.

For more info (e.g., of a journalist talking to doctors and such), take a look at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmar...

The recent data I've seen suggests that level of multi-drug resistant infections has actually leveled off or dropped slightly.

Is it a problem? Yes. Are we close to the end? No.

Watch that PBS Fromtline episode on antibiotic resistance.

In that case it would be better to write:

> If we really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance — and many experts agree we may not be far off

I'd say this would be worse. "many experts" is a weasel word, implying an authority behind the statement, but providing no proof of it. And "trust me" is at the least plain and honest.