in Victorian times the author wanted to warn people about the arsenic in wallpaper and its dangers, so he published a book of wallpaper samples with arsenic that then itself poisoned and killed people who handled the book
ha, the logic is a bit wacky, but I can also see how maybe publishing a book like that might cause a moral panic that could result in regulatory action (and to be fair that’s how the FDA was created, after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle resulted in a moral panic)
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in Victorian times the author wanted to warn people about the arsenic in wallpaper and its dangers, so he published a book of wallpaper samples with arsenic that then itself poisoned and killed people who handled the book
“Hey, grenades are dangerous.”
Hands you a grenade with the pin pulled.
(At the funeral.) “Told you.”
ha, the logic is a bit wacky, but I can also see how maybe publishing a book like that might cause a moral panic that could result in regulatory action (and to be fair that’s how the FDA was created, after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle resulted in a moral panic)