WTF Wednesday - Banning Research only leads to Ignorance
I’ve read more than one article about how the NRA lobbied to get funding for gun violence banned because it might be “political” to know actual facts about how many people were getting shot with guns in the US every year. Banning research just means that we don't have any accurate data about what's really happening.
What we learned before the NRA banned research funding
These are huge, huge risks, and to just put that in perspective, we look at a risk that someone might get a heart attack or that they might get a certain type of cancer, and if that risk might be 20 percent greater, that may be enough to ban a certain drug or a certain product.
But in this case, we're talking about a risk not 20 percent, not 100 percent, not 200 percent, but almost 300 percent or 500 percent. These are huge, huge risks.
Via jaylake
What we learned before the NRA banned research funding
These are huge, huge risks, and to just put that in perspective, we look at a risk that someone might get a heart attack or that they might get a certain type of cancer, and if that risk might be 20 percent greater, that may be enough to ban a certain drug or a certain product.
But in this case, we're talking about a risk not 20 percent, not 100 percent, not 200 percent, but almost 300 percent or 500 percent. These are huge, huge risks.
Via jaylake