Tickerguy wrote..

many died because the fools implemented a scientific method focused on probability and statistical reduction in emitted particles rather than an engineering approach that relied on deterministic process designed to be well beyond reasonable confidence intervals.

Ah, penny finally dropped re importance of this science vs engineering distinction.
This begs the question why fools implemented this inappropriate method, which speculation will involve the morality of the fools as well as their intelligence, as statistically there must be some intelligent people involved yet they did not affect the decision.