See also Bioinfohazards, which steps through infohazards from the biorisk lens. It seems to have missed overall the category of “public advice,” and is mostly concerned with the question of what gets unleashed, as opposed to how to handle scenarios where something has been unleashed.
That is, one can both popularize advice that is misleading or harmful (“having sex with a virgin will cure you of HIV”) or one can fail to popularize advice that is informative or helpful. The mixed case, where the public health authorities have decided it’s worth lying to the public (“masks won’t help” as opposed to “please reserve masks for medical professionals who need them more”), is also perhaps worth consideration.
See also Bioinfohazards, which steps through infohazards from the biorisk lens. It seems to have missed overall the category of “public advice,” and is mostly concerned with the question of what gets unleashed, as opposed to how to handle scenarios where something has been unleashed.
That is, one can both popularize advice that is misleading or harmful (“having sex with a virgin will cure you of HIV”) or one can fail to popularize advice that is informative or helpful. The mixed case, where the public health authorities have decided it’s worth lying to the public (“masks won’t help” as opposed to “please reserve masks for medical professionals who need them more”), is also perhaps worth consideration.