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It is weak thinking to state that rare high risk events that haven't occurred no longer require risk mitigation.
by angry_octet 10y ago
It is weak thinking to state that rare high risk events that haven't occurred no longer require risk mitigation.
- thaumasiotes 10y agoYou may have drawn a different lesson from "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" than everybody else.
- angry_octet 10y agoIt is quite strange that you are comparing a biosecurity threat to a fairy tale. There is actual scientific evidence of a pathogen that eliminated a banana type and caused massive economic loss, and you pretend that there isn't. We have biosecurity alerts regularly and some times quarantine procedures fail, e.g. http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/white-spot-disease http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/wh.... It is the same sort of self serving delusion that leads to climate change denialism.