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This seems to happen a lot though: some chemical/substance/whatever with benefits is discovered. Substance has negative effects on people. They test it until
by ericmcer 2y ago
This seems to happen a lot though:
some chemical/substance/whatever with benefits is discovered.
Substance has negative effects on people.
They test it until they find that those negative effects are no longer detectable at a certain low quantity.
It gets rolled out and everyone starts putting it in their bodies.
That seems like... I dunno not the safest way to do things?
- coldpie 2y agoIndeed it would be bad if studies were done that way. Luckily they aren't (at least, not in mainstream health research, in the first world, in many decades). Medical ethics is a whole field, and public health in particular is really heavily scrutinized.