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This is ridiculously poor logic and the author should be ashamed to expose this flawed reasoning as an example of presymed intelligence. Rachel Carson did NOT
by kkojei 10y ago
This is ridiculously poor logic and the author should be ashamed to expose this flawed reasoning as an example of presymed intelligence. Rachel Carson did NOT cause ANY deaths because of her work. The cause of those deaths was malaria. Malaria was killing people long before the advent of DDT. Centuries before. That DDT was banned had to do with its own deadly flaws and nothing else. To try and hang mass murder accusations in this gifted and courageous woman is patently absurd.
- Scaevolus 10y agoIf you publish drastic health claims without good evidence, you bear some of the burden of the result-- even if you never intended it! Similarly, you might directly blame Jenny McCarthy for the hundreds or thousands of children that have died because they or the children they came in contact with weren't vaccinated due to scaremongering information. This is the classical moral argument of intentions vs results.
- bhickey 10y agoI don't follow your reasoning. People died before seat belts. We have seat belts and they save lives. I publish a paper claiming that seat belts cause lung cancer. Seat belts are withdrawn from cars and people die. If my research was bunk, haven't I just killed a lot of people in the name of public health?