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> Should patients be made aware of this risk when they're receiving the devices? What risk? The risk that the truth comes out? Give me a break.
by miguelrochefort 10y ago
> Should patients be made aware of this risk when they're receiving the devices?
What risk? The risk that the truth comes out? Give me a break.
- billmalarky 10y agoDevil's Advocate: Software has bugs, what if the data implicated him but was incorrect? Of course bugs in a pacemaker means bigger problems... but you get my point.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoI assume that a reasonable justice system wouldn't sentence someone based on a singular piece of evidence. True facts reinforce each other; false claims oppose the truth. Therefore if the data was incorrect, hopefully there would be other pieces of evidence that would contradict the data.
- PeterisP 10y agoThe possibility of bugs is something that the defence can argue - the court would need to find beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty. It's certainly not the responsibility of manufacturer to provide perfect or imperfect certainty about the data, but it's the prerogative of the jury to decide the trustworthiness of that data.
- grayhatter 10y agoYou assume that the truth will set you free, and not to an interment camp, or lose you your refugee status.
- nkrisc 10y agoThe risk that the data is accessible. Today it's the police, tomorrow: who else?