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psykliclast Sunday at 12:55 AM1 replyview on HN

So you're suggesting that in response to misinformation about provably beneficial safety standards, we should erode the standards.

That encourages even more misinformation, and further erosion of public safety.


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odyssey7last Sunday at 1:15 AM

Ah yes, we’re back to the idea that the public cannot be helped. The answer is that the problem is a different, unsolvable one: presumably due to misinformation, members of the public have opinions that are too strongly held for them to follow policies.