Iatrogenics happens when the benefits are clear and the harms are hidden. So “rational” people tend to intervene because it would seem the benefits outweigh the costs.
Correct. To parse that further, the costs may be hidden, involve unknowns and/or unknown unknowns.
This is the explanation many of the unvaxed smart people I know used to justify relying on their immune systems which were developed and tested for a million+ years over recently developed covid vaccines.
> Iatrogenics happens when the benefits are clear and the harms are hidden. So “rational” people tend to intervene because it would seem the benefits outweigh the costs.
Also as always you must remember that not every single person will be harmed equally. And in many cases solutions are chosen not because they are best(cheaper/least harmful), but because they harm specific portion of population. Think why swimming pools were filled with concrete and many more.
This is the explanation many of the unvaxed smart people I know used to justify relying on their immune systems which were developed and tested for a million+ years over recently developed covid vaccines.