Originally posted by BigalG
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You could perhaps say "he got in his car, and driving was produced, then he arrived at his destination". Likewise, you could fill a bucket with sand and say you produced bucketed sand. But you'd get funny looks...
My aim was not to point out a lexical error, but to address the likely conceptual misunderstanding behind it.
As for pathogens - anyone who can take sterile milk, put it in a microwave and create a new organism is a shoe-in for a Nobel prize - or perhaps more fittingly, a sainthood.

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