[kbrkbr]

One side effect would probably be, that anti-science rulers would turn this into a weapon against unliked scientific results. Think vaccines. The Damocles sword of endless litigation would hang over every scientific research concerning public policy.

Maybe it's overall better to let science sort out science things.

[therobots927]

Sounds familiar to how the Catholic Church handled the abuse scandal… which was not very well at all. Science has proven, like many other rotten institutions, that it cannot police itself.