Gregory's Server
But risk compensation is especially salient in these covid days, where it's being used to fight rapid testing ("encourages risky behavior").
The problem isn't the difficulty of formulating good health and safety policy, though that difficulty is real. The problem is that, having ruled health policy to be above question or scrutiny, we invite paternalism and authoritarianism.
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Whether it's a noble lie, a grift, a moral panic, or a deregulatory fraud, abuse of safety rhetoric always comes to light. When it does, it discredits the whole project of evidence-based safety.
And *that* is truly an unsafe situation.
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