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Is it logical to use something before it has been proven save? My router has a whitelist, not a blacklist. Which is safer?
by sschueller 7y ago
Is it logical to use something before it has been proven save?
My router has a whitelist, not a blacklist. Which is safer?
- lettergram 7y agoPretty much impossible to prove something has no harm generally. Proving non-existence is a fallacy[1] You can however say that “today there is little evidence”, then offset it by potential costs (in this case food supply). [1] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/145/Proving-Non-Existence https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
- EpicEng 7y agoProve to me that typing on a keyboard doesn't cause cancer. I'll wait.
- sschueller 7y agoSmoking cigarettes didn't cause cancer until 1964...
- orwin 7y agoThis is false. Sufficient evidence was found in the 40s, but tobacco was seen as a threat by some scientists/doctors way before. And today we have a much better understanding of epidemiology, so any cancer glyphosate enhance would have been discovered already. And we did: NHL.
- EpicEng 7y agoWe knew earlier, but I'm sorry; I thought we were talking about actual proof, not lack of knowledge and/or marketing. If nothing could be used by the general public until 'proven safe' you would be living in a cave and discussing this via carrier pigeon.