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by nope1000 741 days ago
The harm is hard to assess without a control group.
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If the harm is hard to assess, is it worth caring about? At some point the effect becomes insignificant.
Hard to detect absolutely does not mean insignificant.

It was hard to detect population-scale lead poisoning too.

Hard to discern. But you already knew that.