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Max von Side-Eye

30 Apr, 10 tweets, 2 min read

The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) is a broad epistemological, philosophical and legal approach to innovations with potential for causing harm when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking.🕵🏻‍♂️

It emphasizes caution, pausing and review before leaping into new innovations that may prove disastrous. Critics argue that it is vague, self-cancelling, unscientific and an obstacle to progress.🕵🏻‍♂️

For example, forbidding nuclear power plants based on concerns about low-probability high-impact risks means continuing to rely on power plants that burn fossil fuels, which continue to release greenhouse gases and thousands of certain deaths from air pollution.🕵🏻‍♂️

When emotions get involved, we neglect probability altogether.💁‍♂️✅🕵🏻‍♂️

Because the availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.

Subsequently, under the availability heuristic, people tend to heavily weigh their judgments toward more recent information, making new opinions biased toward that latest news.

All of these concepts can be readily applied to the continued approach to COVID-19.✅✅✅

The suppression of DDT has resulted in thousands of deaths from malaria. The risks from DDT were considerably less, but Silent Spring was an emotional book, so, DDT was banned.🕵🏻‍♂️🕵🏻‍♂️🕵🏻‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

The Precautionary Principle is the first chapter of San Francisco's Environment Code, which authorizes the City to identify products, ingredients, and activities that may harm human health or the environment. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

We live in a world now, where people count their own personal anxiety as a real measurable cost, and not as the wildly irrational phantasm that it truly is. We legislate based on group hallucinations, caused by people that really just need more sleep and a walk in the park.🕵🏻‍♂️

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Max von Side-Eye

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Listening to an economist talk about how recycling has always been a religious ritual. 💁‍♂️✅ #EconTalk 😂

The things that we “recycle” are in fact by any definition garbage, and it costs more in resources and energy to turn it into anything useful than just throwing away. The only gain is moral superiority.

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