Industries invented harm thresholds they had no evidence to support

Evidence

In efforts to create a threshold, industry officials presented quantitative arguments that the amount of exposure to lead was insufficient to cause harm, even if their product was harmful in large doses. Although there was no evidence to suggest that lead content was safe below a certain threshold, they discussed establishing specific thresholds below which their products would not be considered toxic to humans. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1765

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence-before-threshold fabrication connects to vault claims about how policy rationalization proceeds without evidence, echoing Cooper findings. — connects to: Industrialization created accidents and knowledge gaps that the old tort law ignored. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3467; No evidence supports the moss-damages-roofs industry claim — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 396
• DEFINE: Illustrates the ‘displacement and diffusion of responsibility’ and euphemistic-labeling steps via the invented ‘threshold’ concept.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1765