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>no experiments have been able to prove danger

Which is strong evidence that the danger is very small, very rare, or takes a very long time to develop.

You don't need a large clinical trial to prove that being shot in the head is harmful; you do need a very large trial to detect that, say, a drug increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by 4% in a specific sub-population.



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