On: Herbicide glyphosate under fire worldwide, gets banned by Austria

[sschueller]

Is it logical to use something before it has been proven save?

My router has a whitelist, not a blacklist. Which is safer?

[lettergram → sschueller]

Pretty much impossible to prove something has no harm generally. Proving non-existence is a fallacy[1]

You can however say that “today there is little evidence”, then offset it by potential costs (in this case food supply).

[1] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

[EpicEng → sschueller]

Prove to me that typing on a keyboard doesn't cause cancer. I'll wait.

[sschueller → EpicEng]

Smoking cigarettes didn't cause cancer until 1964...

[orwin → sschueller]

This is false. Sufficient evidence was found in the 40s, but tobacco was seen as a threat by some scientists/doctors way before. And today we have a much better understanding of epidemiology, so any cancer glyphosate enhance would have been discovered already. And we did: NHL.

[EpicEng → sschueller]

We knew earlier, but I'm sorry; I thought we were talking about actual proof, not lack of knowledge and/or marketing. If nothing could be used by the general public until 'proven safe' you would be living in a cave and discussing this via carrier pigeon.