Lumifer comments on Suppose HBD is True - Less Wrong

-12 Post author: OrphanWilde 21 April 2016 01:34PM

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Comment author: roystgnr 21 April 2016 07:02:42PM -2 points [-]

Pakistan, for example, is so dysfunctional and clannish that iodization and polio programs have had serious trouble making any headway.

To be fair, that's not entirely Pakistanis' fault. Is paranoia about Communist fluoridation plots more or less dysfunctional than paranoia about CIA vaccination plots? Does it make a difference that only the latter has a grain of truth to it?

Comment author: Lumifer 21 April 2016 07:13:48PM 0 points [-]

Is paranoia about Communist fluoridation plots more or less dysfunctional than paranoia about CIA vaccination plots?

Less, because in the former case your kids could have a few more cavities and in the latter case your kids could grow up dumb and/or crippled.