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.