[penrod]

These are good examples of information that you rationally choose not to learn. The second part of my question was whether you believe some third party should be able to require that the information be withheld from you even if you want to learn it.

[dmazin]

Clearly I do believe that information should be regulated, since I support FDA's ban of 23andme disseminating statistically inconfident yet severe medical information the way they do. Because of the way people react to it, I do not think that this information should be given without genetic counsel.

This is the only case in my life where I've thought that a piece of information should be regulated.

The phrase "information regulation" is deeply scary to me. This is dangerous turf. But I think that this is the right decision at the time.