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It’s easy to see the appeal of this position for the medical establishment: It shifts the onus of health from practitioners to patients.
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Risk compensation has been brought up to question a wide range of public health interventions, including diet soda, low-tar cigarettes, child-safety caps on medication, hypertension treatments, and needle-exchange programs. In each case, the reasoning is that the intervention could backfire because the masses are just too dumb or too undisciplined to act in what the medical community perceives to be in their own best interests.
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When oral contraceptives were first approved by the FDA in 1960, critics at the time warned that “the foundations of contemporary sexual morality may be threatened” by the ensuing promiscuity. What’s more, some experts said, since women—especially poor women—couldn’t be trusted to adhere to daily pill-taking, the pill may not even end up reducing unwanted pregnancies. Doctors and medical experts have raised analogous concerns for syphilis treatment, the morning-after pill, PrEP for HIV prevention, and more recently, HPV vaccination