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I know there are better examples, but the one that always comes to mind for me is Asbestos. Everyone thought that was safe, now it kills 100,000+ people a year.
by radcon 7y ago
I know there are better examples, but the one that always comes to mind for me is Asbestos. Everyone thought that was safe, now it kills 100,000+ people a year.
And to make matters worse, companies were able to suppress evidence of its danger for decades. We never know what evidence is being withheld from us, so I feel like a little irrational paranoia is actually rational.
Edit: Oh, and how about Exxon withholding all that information about climate change for 40 years? That's another good one.
- avgDev 7y agoThere is another good one. Bayer took HIV infected blood from US and Europe and sold it in Africa, infecting many people with HIV in the process. Also, many medications have under reported side effects. I myself have experienced insane side effects from an antibiotic. Doctors I have seen fail to report to the FDA and claim it is something else. I have talked to many people with the same symptoms and again they encountered the same issue with the medical community. While the FDA actually has been adding more and more serious side effects to the medications label, due to people self-reporting because doctors fail to do so.
- timkpaine 7y agoJesus....https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785997 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785997