“If the database itself is false —— either from careless work or from intentional bias —— it poisons every conclusion which emerges from it. A false database causes innocent analysts of such data to fill the xxxxxxx journals and textbooks with un-knowledge. It renders all its users into agents of possibly deadly mis-information. . . .”
——Dr. John Gofman
concentrated benefit over diffuse harm
Written by John W. Gofman and Egan O'Conner *14
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“The law of Concentrated Benefit over Diffuse Injury can be stated as follows:
“A small, determined group, working energetically for its own narrow interests, can almost always impose an injustice upon a vastly larger group, provided that the larger group believes that the injury is "hypothetical," or distant-in-the-future, or real-but-small relative to the real-and-large cost of preventing it.
[...]
“Many scholars have written about this extremely important axiom before —— it is not original with us. The fact that narrow special interests are always at work for their own benefit at the expense of others is not at all surprising, given human nature. And it is not surprising that the victims select what appears to be the strategy of least cost to themselves.
“The surprising aspect is the failure of so many victims —— especially in peaceful democracies —— to appreciate the aggregate consequences which inevitably accrue, when each small injustice has such a high chance of prevailing.”
*14 (
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/CBoDI.html
)
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——Dr. John Gofman
concentrated benefit over diffuse harm
Written by John W. Gofman and Egan O'Conner *14
([ --> principle of concentrated benefit over diffuse harm <-- ])
“The law of Concentrated Benefit over Diffuse Injury can be stated as follows:
“A small, determined group, working energetically for its own narrow interests, can almost always impose an injustice upon a vastly larger group, provided that the larger group believes that the injury is "hypothetical," or distant-in-the-future, or real-but-small relative to the real-and-large cost of preventing it.
[...]
“Many scholars have written about this extremely important axiom before —— it is not original with us. The fact that narrow special interests are always at work for their own benefit at the expense of others is not at all surprising, given human nature. And it is not surprising that the victims select what appears to be the strategy of least cost to themselves.
“The surprising aspect is the failure of so many victims —— especially in peaceful democracies —— to appreciate the aggregate consequences which inevitably accrue, when each small injustice has such a high chance of prevailing.”
*14 (
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/CBoDI.html
)
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