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Even the most horrible innovations have eventually been found to be a net positive.
by deafpolygon 4y ago
Even the most horrible innovations have eventually been found to be a net positive.
- zarzavat 4y agoCFCs? Thalidomide? Come to think of it, pharma is positively rife with examples of stepping on the gas and causing disease or killing people. You won’t find many people who want to defund the FDA, although I guess there’s always a few nutters.
- deafpolygon 4y agoCFCs, as terrible as they were, played a big role in industrialization. Could we have gotten there without it? Absolutely. Maybe we could have developed something else far worse than CFCs in its place! The phase out of CFCs brought our attention to the impact our (human) activities have on the planet. Fallout from the use of thalidomide led to important changes to regulations. Currently, it is being used for therapeutic uses in cancer treatments.