Trust the science, Bigot!
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I've been using those examples almost constantly. Other good ones are the story about lead in gasoline, where the companies won millions and millions of dollars, put millions of life in danger, and the guy speaking out against them got blacklisted everywhere (sounds similar?), or the CFC which just tore down the ozone layer in a decade, to the point it had to be globally banned almost instantly.
But it's amazing how defense people are for just no reason. "We learned from our mistakes" "It won't happen again" "We know better know, we didn't know much about science in the 50s" "Those people just wanted money, we're well-intended now and want to save lives." "You see patterns everywhere, not everything is black and white."
And the correct answer is "none of the above"!
Humans are horrible at learning from mistakes. They repeat them over and over again saying "This will be the last." We don't know any better; technology merely allows us to probe into ever-smaller chunks of space and time, not improve our understanding of chemistry and biology. It's always going to be about the money, good intentions have been pushed to the "conspiracy scientists" like Tesla. There is a definite black and white, good and evil.
Car batteries are mostly lead.
Thanks for changing that upper left one.
For too long, this meme was using a fake ad from the Bioshock games.
This one instead uses a real ad.
Yes, I, too, shared the original meme and got fact checked on Facebook for using an image from a video game. I then deleted the pregnant woman picture and replaced it with the doctors prefer Camel advertisement. Then Facebook left me alone.
The other one was also a real ad, it was just taken from a game because more people would have been familiar with it and it was also slightly oversaturated to make colors stand out better.
DDT is harmless and save billions of lives.
IMO it worked too well, like the lightbulb that never burned out.
Radioactive products: toothpaste, cosmetics, chocolate and more! 💀
https://gizmodo.com/seriously-scary-radioactive-consumer-products-from-the-498044380
The cigarette ad has nothing to do with science. It just states the fact that more doctors smoked Camels than any other brand. It just means Camels were popular a long time ago.