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[–]LifeIsSuffering 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Who would pay for evidence that could harm profits? Or, who would lose their funding, job and future in science should they damage profitable reputations?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Who paid for the research all the other times that things were found to be harmful?

It is very costly to remove asbestose. Lead paint had valuable qualities that non lead paint does not. It's coslty to do all the safety things. Yet, that exists.

[–]LifeIsSuffering 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Asbestos is a fine example to support my point, thank you. It was first recognised by the US government that asbestos posed a risk to health in 1918, and asbestosis was discovered in 1930. Asbestos wasn't banned in the UK until 1999, some 70 odd years later. But few doctors would lose their funding for discovery of a harmful substance in construction. A discovery in the field of medicine that holds the field of medicine in disrepute though, is a different story. People don't shit on their own doorstep.