Are new discoveries always good?

   / Are new discoveries always good? #11  
I think Discoveries are great, Ideas are also great, uses for ideas and discoveries may be good today, and not good in years to come, or not good today and wished we did it in years to come.

Take the case of population growth, land use, water resourcses and electrical resources and impact of discoveries, ideas, and uses of such.
 
   / Are new discoveries always good? #12  
Times and needs change. Population growth was important when humans were scarce and potentially eradicated. In current times, probably less so and the danger may be the opposite. However, just because a politician or bureaucrat claims something is a problem does not necessarily make it true.

Ken
 
   / Are new discoveries always good? #13  
Some inventions were great and then MADE by a handful of people to be EVIL.
Take DDT for example. DDT saved 10’s of millions of people from dying horrible deaths from malaria and other insect transmitted diseases. However, a few very determined environmentalist crusaders got it banned.

DDT never killed one person, but DDT saved 10’s of millions of lives.
 
   / Are new discoveries always good? #14  
Some inventions were great and then MADE by a handful of people to be EVIL.
Take DDT for example. DDT saved 10’s of millions of people from dying horrible deaths from malaria and other insect transmitted diseases. However, a few very determined environmentalist crusaders got it banned.

DDT never killed one person, but DDT saved 10’s of millions of lives.
 

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   / Are new discoveries always good? #16  
A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain.
The cause of his sorrow
Was Para-dichloro-
Diphenyl trichloro ethane.
 
   / Are new discoveries always good? #17  
We don't need things like birds and fish.
yep, they’re more important than the 10’s of millions of DEAD HUMANS. :ROFLMAO:

Not even close to seeing the extinction of birds & fish due to DDT.

Try some unbiased (other than google, snopes or other environmentalist publications) reading. You might learn something more than the lazy ”science”
 
   / Are new discoveries always good? #19  
"And many more are enhanced by others to do harm to mankind. Im trying to think of one thing that has bettered mankind where someone else has not used it for the opposite." ................
.....................................................................................tampons. :)
 
   / Are new discoveries always good? #20  
"And many more are enhanced by others to do harm to mankind. Im trying to think of one thing that has bettered mankind where someone else has not used it for the opposite." ................
.....................................................................................tampons. :)

No, tampons were weaponized when they became superduper absorbent. Toxic shock. ☠️
 

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