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It's a reasonable hypothesis. Whenever phenomenons are probabilistic, we're poorly equipped to use our direct experience to assess what they do. We see that all the time with pseudo-medicine for instance. And people became extremely defensive about these questions (vaccines, pseudo-sciences...) - which is why you're downvoted.


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