Under our current system, ignorance equals safety.
From its beginnings as an outpost of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos has operated in a state where the ideal of science as the free exchange of information has been indefinitely suspended, replaced by a conviction that there is safety in ignorance, that life is more secure when certain powerful ideas are kept among a few.
Even in the cleanest houses, good cooks can make mistakes when preparing meals, because of ignorance about simple food safety measures: for example, how to cool food down quickly after cooking and how to store it safely.
Before 9/11, I existed in a pleasant bubble of safety and ignorance.
Training reduces ignorance and fear, increasing safety to recognize that the victim is not breathing properly, so as to trigger help and start CPR as soon as possible.
Wood accused Thomas Cook of ignorance about the hotel's safety measures but the company largely ignored her until Peter Fankhauser, chief executive since November 2014, met her to apologise after an inquest last year found Thomas Cook responsible.
Though he referred to the alien up the stairs as a "pretty standard-issue", he liked it for being a metaphor of "the trap of complacency and the ways staying in a rut can lead to safety, stagnancy, and ignorance of the peril encroaching just outside one's four walls".
So I'm sure some young, smart, hardworking go-getters will keep the new ideas coming... unless of course, we've decimated education, promoted ignorance, and ravaged the social safety net to the point that we are unleashing a generation ill-equipped to tap into their own creativity.
[They should] not be put in this situation where there is total ignorance about their ability to work, safety and wellbeing".
Congress also should change the worker-safety laws so that ignorance of the law is no longer a defense.
