This doesn't surprise me at all. It took almost 40 years to prove that smoking causes lung cancer. Similarly, despite unambiguous scientific evidence, it still seems acceptable to deny that man-made CO2 release into the atmosphere causes global warming. There's actually a good book covering these two instances and others: "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke…
did we just go through a "modern" bubble ? I feel like most of post ww2 era was most the dream of a new perception of the world that could sustain its distortion field for a few decades: - oil based energy now wrecking havoc - "science" based nutrition - free market - communication technology I'm listing the dark parts but there's something odd in the way we probably all swallowed the pill with such a big grin for so…
- oil-based energy powered our global economy that was able to research alternative forms of energy
- both nutrition and science have always been an unfinished work, "we don't know everything" != "we know nothing"
- free markets, for their faults, are still better than any other base system we've come up with
- communications technology, I'd hazard we're still grasping with the repurcussions of this re: democracy and many other pre-existing systems. But the fact that I read about the Rohingya genocide by Myanmar again on the front page of the BBC this morning would indicate it has its advantages to the world too