Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
Prion diseases are very rare. Nurses tend to know know very well what are actual hazards and what's more of a theoretical hazard. Even a lot of medical equipment is sterilized or cleaned in ways that aren't effective against prions. Not every appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. Sometimes people simply know what they're talking about.
Yeah, until it happens. Just like the people who "knew what they were talking about" about ulcers. Can't be bacteria, right? 30 years of "knowledge" obviously said it was "stress". Oops.
If there's one field where every claim is suspect, it's medicine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori"At the time, the conventional thinking was that no bacterium could live in the acid environment of the human stomach"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_MarshallMarshall has been quoted as saying in 1998 that "(e)veryone was against me, but I knew I was right." it was discovered that the lab technicians had been throwing out the cultures after 2 days. This was standard practice Due to other hospital work, the lab technicians did not have time to immediately throw out the 31st test on the second day, and so it stayed from Thursday through to the Monday. In this sample, they discovered the presence of H. pylori.So you'll excuse my skepticism for the claims of a field where accident seems to play a major role. Medical people really need to get their egos checked, seriously get over yourselves.
Besides, we aren't talking about what nurses know or don't know in an operating theater, we are talking about decommissioned medical garbage that has seen thousands of patients. You gonna put your money where your mouth is and lick that dried blood, tough guy?
Is it really worth it to salvage stupid 25 cent jelly bean opamps so someone can build a 50$ power supply? Really? Why not use knobs from a Fukushima reactor while you're at it? There's no risk, someone said so! They know what they're talking about! They've been repeating the same crap for decades without checking, I'm convinced!