There may be a better wording for this phrase "principle of caution". What I mean by it is the following: when a relationship is discovered between two or more phenomena, the conclusion that there truly is such a relationship as specified should be reserved pending further data and experiment.
The example I'll choose is medication, although many technological 'advances' will also suffice. I understand people dying of terminal diseases will assuage their doubts over the lack of proof behind a cure. But people suffering from garden variety depression seem not to have justification to take drugs with, not only known side effects, but possibly many unknown, yet, very life-threatning effects.
The fact that millions of people do, in my opinion, haphazardly take such medications as anti-depressants is the concern.
2006-07-29
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