Huh? If your point with comic books etc. is that "sometimes some people take issue with things that end up inert", then sure. No argument there. I suspect that

Huh? If your point with comic books etc. is that "sometimes some people take issue with things that end up inert", then sure. No argument there. I suspect that your point was more broadly that the presence of those people somehow suggests that we should discount risks about the particular subject we're discussing today, then it makes no sense. The comic book examples only matter if you can demonstrate a systematic tendency to overrate risk. You'd struggle to demonstrate such a tendency due to selection bias, so I maintain my position that each technology should be assessed on its own merits and not by associating it with other positive or negative reactions to other types of technologies.