[patagurbon]

They are not reasonable. Ideological “balance” has no place in any of the sciences. Science is about truth not balance.

[nine_zeros]

Yes, they are not objectively "reasonable" that's why I added the "- if they came from Congress" part. And I can't imagine Congress would pass these rules because of the Senate structure.

"Reasonable" is a distributed discovery process. A unitary order can never be "reasonable".

[IAmBroom]

You miss the point. It's not any more reasonable if Congress enforced this groupthink.

[nine_zeros]

You miss the point too. Congress is going to have a tough time imposing this groupthink - because it would take convincing 217+ reps and 60 senators as opposed to the unitary 1 person.