Such thinkers ignore the reality that getting the answer wrong means that society continues to invest billions on programs in an effort to produce changes/improvements that will never occur because the programs are not coupled to the true, underlying causes.
The curious revival of Pascal's wager like thinking in atheist lefties. 'Believe stuff because it doing so will have good consequences (according to my politics)' cannot be valid epistemic grounds for holding any belief. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01801799 …pic.twitter.com/7XpX9L3klp
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Much of this it seems to me to be linked to the desire to create a framework for implementation of the Precautionary Principle as a default option in policy-making that comports with political and ideological preferences.
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