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and now for some final thoughts on bad
news many people fear new information
that might contain bad news beyond their
control but to fear bad news by hiding
from it forfeits any opportunity to
solve the problem suppose the enterprise
of science shunned bad news we would
never cure disease or mitigate disaster
we would crouch with our head in the
sand ceding our fate to forces we
imagine to be beyond our control
take killer asteroids for example
without a space program we could pretend
they're not there or we might run away
from where they might strike but I'd
much rather learn all I can about these
objects and then figure out a way to
deflect them even worse than bad news
for some people is uncertainty not
knowing something for sure makes them
uncomfortable they just have to have the
answer the exact answer but to the
scientist uncertainty is a call to the
wild that's where data are in greatest
need of improvement along the way to
fully develop theories and experiments
that have shed their shrouds of
uncertainty for some cases especially
your health you can actually influence
the uncertainty yourself if you wear a
seatbelt your chances of surviving a
high-speed car accident are much higher
than if you don't and if you exercise
and eat well you can stave off diseases
that you might be genetically prone to
contract so bad news
uncertainty I say bring it on to a
person engaged in discovery all
information is good
even when it's bad and that is the
cosmic perspective
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