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My point is, I don't like this defeatist attitude of "well there's no way to know, so we should just do more of the same". Just because it's a very hard problem doesn't mean there isn't a lot more we could do. And a lot of the chemicals causing problems today could have been ruled out with far less effort than haphazardly testing it on the whole world population.

I don't see why so many people these days need to reduce everything to this type of false dichotomy.

And it's also a question of how much concern is enough? I would argue that currently the threshold is set far, far too high.



I never said there's no way to know. What I'm saying is that those of us who haven't studied should be humble about how much we know.

It's a choice we make all the time. For anything you read about, are you curious enough to investigate it further, or are you going to let it go by?


Right. I'm a pretty bad example because I obsessively investigate further. I can't help it. I see something, I need to understand it. It's my curse in life.




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