Because any discussion of venereal matters violated the Comstock law, Sanger's final essay, "Some Consequences of Ignorance and Silence," was banned on the ground of obscenity.
This advice seems difficult to reconcile with the numerous prior caveats regarding lab safety and the potential consequences of ignorance in a biomedical lab.
What people don't realize is that there are very real consequences to ignorance (anyone who has lost a friend or family member in Iraq knows exactly how horrendous the consequences of ignorance can be).
Notwithstanding this, there are some measures that could help the consequences of ignorance and the impacts of surprises: Using intrinsic properties as generic predictors for unknown but possible impacts, for example, the persistence, bioaccumulation, and spatial range potential of chemical substances (Stroebe et al. 2004).
The positive answers given by Greek students regarding the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs are a consequence of their ignorance of the history of life on earth.
The consequence of this ignorance is that today many of the residents in northwest Pakistan live in a human rights free zone where they have no legal protection by the government and are subject to horrific abuses by the Taleban.
When we fail, sometimes it's a failure of clairvoyance, which is forgivable; sometimes it's a consequence of our ignorance or impotence, and sometimes it's because our default hardwiring is denial.
In that environment, the proximate consequence of systematic ignorance is best seen in articles such as this one, in which the author attempts to celebrate the demise of the metric system by celebrating the very temperature scale that he's making fun of.
