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>would society be better off if we were much more conservative about demonstrating the long-term safety of new substances before scaling up their use? How? Wh
by dwighttk 4y ago
>would society be better off if we were much more conservative about demonstrating the long-term safety of new substances before scaling up their use?
How?
Why limit it to substances? Social media is unsafe
What point in time were we only using safe substances so we can use that list of substances as the baseline and then somehow only allow new substances to be used when their long term safety has been demonstrated somehow?
- upsidesinclude 4y agoIs this even a real point? Yes, we should take new chemicals and study them for a significant time frame prior to extensive global use. The bar can be set higher. Don't conflate social science with hard science. Social media is great at steering populations, generating useful propaganda and generating useful profiles of individuals.... Why would governments want to restrict that?
- dwighttk 4y agowho is we? what is a new chemical? who will study them? how long is significant? what does safe mean? who will limit global use?
- upsidesinclude 4y agoI'm not interested in a Socratic dialogue wherein you bring nothing to the table.