Editor—Prevention may not be better than cure.1
Karl Popper, having fled from philistine philosophy, has already said: “In the realm of errors, cure is better than prevention.”2
Overenthusiastic scientists, politicians, and so on, tend to forget that the realm of error in which we live is large. Prevention is permissible only in well understood and controllable conditions.
Competing interests: None declared.
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