The Sound Of Settled Science

True, but Red Rachel et. al. want to "leave it in the ground", thereby denying society its benefits.

Do you honestly believe that coal fired power has anything to do with extracting small amounts of coal for medicinal feedstock?

Besides, Canadian coal fired power is not a significant source of toxic pollution given the stack scrubbing regs in Canada.

The fact is the conservatives in Alberta couldn't get their act together and stupidly let the socialists take power.

If looking for Coal Tar soap, my Pharmacist friend suggests you try:

TERSA-TAR SHP 450ML
POLYTAR SHP MILD 350ML
POLYTAR SHP RG 350ML
DOAK OIL FTE 250ML
DOAK OIL RG 250ML
EXOREX GEL 2 COAL TAR 100ML
EXOREX GEL 2 COAL TAR 250ML
LIQUOR CARBONIS DETERGENS 500ML
NEUTROGENA T/GEL SHP 0.5% 250ML
NEUTROGENA T/GEL SHP 130ML

A decent pharmacy should special order if requested.

Soooorrrrry! The problem for coal miners is mainly dust. Including stone dust.

The Greens would only by such items if it was labelled

TESLA TAR SHP or CARBON NEUTRALGENA T/GEL SHP.

But Mrs. May would love the LIQUOR CARBONIS DETERGENS 500ML

Most of these products have been discontinued or are not available. Neutrogena t-gel probably the only one
readily available. Ask your pharmacist, they might compound a coal tar solution or ointment.

I was being sarcastic with my earlier comments. It seems odd that a compound which could prove to be a useful medical treatment is made from a substance that the Khmer Vert is rabid in preventing society from using.

Their prohibition is based on questionable science and dubious statistics and is, no doubt, politically motivated. Explaining this to socialists and eco-whackadoodles is about as productive as trying to teach partial differential equations to a buffalo.

Odder is that 60+ millions of people died from the Spanish Influenza immediately subsequent to WWI when Coal Tar was a known key to fighting bad health.
WTF?

Some things should be viewed with either skepticism or the lens of conspiracy.
There is no middle ground.

Medicines derived from Coal tar can be effective antibiotics, like penicillin and sulfa drugs. Influenza is a virus, and antibiotics are not effective in combating viral infections.

Coal tar soap would be key to fighting bad health because cleanliness generally is. But it doesn't say coal tar soap cured infection in wounds, it says acraflavine did that and was derived from coal tar and that acraflavine was replaced by penicillin. What connects either to influenza? I haven't heard of penicillin curing flu, so I wouldn't have thought the acraflavine it replaced was used to treat flu, Spanish or other strains.

article title: This forgotten WWI antiseptic could be the key to fighting antibiotic resistance
and the common cold.(emphasis mine)

Well look at that! Can I believe me own beshitted EYES!?
These A-holes think that the common cold is bacterial rather than viral!!!11!11!eleventie./
Yes...No...or something other is what they're really talking about.

Coal tar is supposed, in this article, as being a key to fighting anti-biotic resistance, not an anti-biotic(anti-bacterial) nor anti-virus(anti-viral) in itself.
It's about intrinsic individual human immunity and avoiding initial infection. It's a helper not a healer.
Ponder that...

Tooner? And what then is your suggestion for why coal tar was dropped as an option to aid health considering these assholes think it can fight the common cold...BETTER KNOWN as the FLU?
(the common cold or flu is in fact viral and YES the term flu is short for influenza the only difference between the two, according to the experts, is time and severity)

Look folks. We can argue all we want about what articles that appear here at SDA make as premises.
We can accept or reject the article's premises and argue on either basis of acceptance or rejection.
But for the sake of plain communication, if you're going to reject the basic premises of the article... PLEASE SAY SO before you put forth your argument and/or assertion.

At least then it will be known from which direction you are approaching the discussion.
Both the common cold and the flu are viral infections.The only medical difference between the two seems to be time and severity.

and yes I know that the title uses the term anti-biotic resistance but then confuses they whole discussion with viral infection.

mining in Cape Breton stopped because the coal was considered too soft and therefore too dirty so now the coal power plants import coal from PA. There is no shortage of coal. One estimate is that the US has about 600 years worth.