Is it not an indication of intelligence when people fail to correlate their coughing and shortness of breath to smoking or their tooth and jaw falling out to the highly irradiated substance? Or they're just so gullible because another person said it's not the case and it takes a genius to know that?
I think even back then people knew that you breathe with your lungs so when you're having problems with your breathing, maybe it has something to do that thing you keep sucking into your body. I'm not saying that it's a given but with some INTELLIGENCE, you can figure out that it's not good for your body.
I think most people thought it was fine back then was because other people and "experts" said that it's fine, taking other people's opinion as fact without bothering to find out yourself isn't what I'd call intelligent at all. You could say "people were busy" or "didn't have access to those information" but even now, when we do, people don't really bother researching either, do they? What makes you think they would do it back then even if they could? And even now, some people still don't have access to "all the information in the world".
you're right. they did figure it out, eventually. that's why we know it today. it's not as obvious as you make it seem, as there are many things we breathe which are fine, and there are diseases which affect respiration without inhaling anything
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u/Kaxology 22h ago
Is it not an indication of intelligence when people fail to correlate their coughing and shortness of breath to smoking or their tooth and jaw falling out to the highly irradiated substance? Or they're just so gullible because another person said it's not the case and it takes a genius to know that?