A lot of it is very likely genetics based on family history, but every time my daughter has a mental or physical health issue, I wonder if it’s because she was exposed to this sort of thing as a baby. But then, I was born when the air was filled with lead from gasoline and there were probably even more and worse pesticides in my baby food, so maybe it’s not as bad as it used to be?
Even worse, we usually have to make those mistakes several times. And even then we have large swathes of people that forget we made them, and advocate for making the same mistakes over again. And then we make perverse incentives to lie to people about the fact that they’re actually mistakes. Humans are wild.
A lot of it is very likely genetics based on family history, but every time my daughter has a mental or physical health issue, I wonder if it’s because she was exposed to this sort of thing as a baby. But then, I was born when the air was filled with lead from gasoline and there were probably even more and worse pesticides in my baby food, so maybe it’s not as bad as it used to be?
It’s a curve that is very difficult to get ahead of, because humans need to make a mistake before we identify something as being a mistake.
Even worse, we usually have to make those mistakes several times. And even then we have large swathes of people that forget we made them, and advocate for making the same mistakes over again. And then we make perverse incentives to lie to people about the fact that they’re actually mistakes. Humans are wild.
The world has never been a safe place, but we keep trying. You do the best you can with the information you have and hope for the best.