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by throw2016 2587 days ago
Who is a 'lay person'? Since few here are scientists who have done studies on pesticides and roundup everyone on this board is a lay person and thus hardly in a position to make any informed comment on rule of law or this case. Your whole 'lay person' argument discredits all lay people including yourself, given 'experts' have designed the system and it is working as designed, so what is the value of a lay software persons opinion on matters of law and pesticides?

This is throwing a tantrum against rule of law. It shocking many here have no respect for citizens and by extension democracy, have appropriated for themselves a monopoly of wisdom and think science is something only scientists understand. Well that rules out the software engineers as they are not scientists or experts and they should limit comment to software issues or this is clear evidence of the dunning kruger effect in the software ecosystem.

There are serious disagreements among scientists so there is no 'scientific consensus' on a large number of issues. For normal people here when top voted comments show open disdain for citizens and democracy and cannot have empathy for citizens being potentially poisoned and side with billion dollar pharmaceutical companies you are in serious trouble.