Don’t ever run for office. We have enough tyrants who are condescending bastards thinking they know how to live our lives better than we do. Who will force people to assume risks because THEY aren’t the ones who are going to be the ones affected if they have a problem with a drug or vaccine.
Your line of thinking is what forces something like Obamacare on people. I guess we just don’t know that it’s really good for us, we’re just that stupid.
Don’t bother posting to me again, I don’t have time to waste on people who believe we can use government to force people to take drugs they don’t want and vaccines they don’t want because they’re too stupid to make their own choices. If you claim it’s because they can’t get good information, blame the people who aren’t giving them good information, don’t blame the people by taking away their right to say no.
You can join the Know Nothings if you like but don’t pretend there is any scientific knowledge in the Man in the street.
What passes for conventional wisdom is almost always wrong. Try and have a conversation on any serious subject with the Man in the Street. After about a minute his dog sounds more knowledgeable. How many have read a non-fiction book in the last year? Or ever? Not one in a thousand has read a book on a scientific topic since college.
How many have read Dickens, Shakespeare, Sophocles or Plato unless forced to? How many have ANY understanding of Western Civilization? Look at the way they have voted for the last 70 yrs.