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1. When we figured out fossil fuels can be used to drive vehicles we did not realize until recently the cost of using it on our environment 2. When we figured
by quaintdev 5y ago
1. When we figured out fossil fuels can be used to drive vehicles we did not realize until recently the cost of using it on our environment
2. When we figured out plastic has versatile uses we did not realize until recently that plastic will end up in ocean as micro plastic which will then become part of food chain.
I can come up with more examples like this. I am not questioning the efficacy of the drug. I am only wondering what if this has adverse effects on other parts of brain which we might discover too late.
- nix23 5y agoWhen we figured out that some Diseases come from little living creatures we wash our hands before operating patients and are able to create vaccines, and medicine. I can come up with more examples like this too, but yes looking into the future is not easy, but much easier when not depressive ;)
- quaintdev 5y agoWith vaccines, we do extensive testing to ensure it does not have side effects and that it does not pose a threat to health of next generation. But I am not so sure if that same analogy can be used with everything else which is not directly impacting human health. Companies invent things, they get greedy and lose the foresight of consequences of their actions. They lobby politicians to defend their own shady practices. The general public ends up paying the price.
- nix23 5y ago>They lobby politicians to defend their own shady practices. That's a political problem not a technical one.