Particle accelerators aside, the quote at the end is a bit of an overstatement: "And as frightening and awesome as the inside of a particle accelerator might be, humanity has thus far survived the nuclear age."
According to one YouTube video I've seen (so, you know, let's not take it as gospel), the shocking and disturbing (and NSFW/NSFL) image in the second article is a victim of burns and is not the subject of the article.
Those two articles are somewhat in conflict. The latter makes it sound like the doctors were doing experiments on Ouchi, while the Wikipedia article's tone seems more in line with a medical team trying to save him. It also mentions that the doctors were instructed to try to resuscitate him (after multiple heart failures) by his family, but the second article makes it sound like they were doing it on their own, to try and prolong his life so they could study him.
That's not a rule of thumb. That's what idiots use as a measuring stick when they can't bother to do any research themselves.
Common Self-Ascribed HN Logician:
"Wow, the Wuhan lab leak sounds CrAzY!! CNN is telling me it's a whacko conspiracy theory by our CrAZy SeNsAtIoNaL PrEsIdEnT! Checkmate, Mister Frump!! Crazy things don't happen! RuLeS of ThUmB!!"
I'm not sure if Ouchi would agree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-man-kept-alive-against-hi...