[smohare]

In what universe should such important public health decisions be made by elected officials largely ignorant of basic science, whom also represent also represent some of the most uneducated and misinformed people alive?

There’s a reason, for example, why we don’t let the market or public opinion dictate the efficiency or safety of drugs.

[encryptluks2]

And when some department of unelected officials test radioactive oatmeal on children or infects people with syphilis, we somehow ignore these issues and pretend like that it would never happen to us.