This thread is full of comments that tl;dr to "oh, they also told us x was safe, but eventually it was not". The thing is, I'm sure half of those stories came

This thread is full of comments that tl;dr to "oh, they also told us x was safe, but eventually it was not". The thing is, I'm sure half of those stories came with studies stating how safe all that was. And hacker news like debates where well meaning smart folks defended that point of view because the data was there. Now I'm much more tolerant to all the tinfoil hats, anti-whatever and crackpots out there. Because even when their arguments make no sense, I get where they come from. The history of mankind is riddled with those situations.