• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Right but that isn’t really comparable. Radiation has been studied for over a century while prions were a total unknown at the time.

    Just because one person does one dumb thing on camera doesn’t mean that everyone facing a camera does dumb things.

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      1 year ago

      Right, I’m not suggesting otherwise. I’m just observing that, for someone who remembers that time, seeing a politician eating for the cameras to prove some food is safe brings to mind this very specific unfortunate example.

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        1 year ago

        For me it brought to mind Thomas Midgley, who did a public stunt where he poured petrol lead additive over his hands and gave himself lead poisoning twice.