Many of us have understood for a while that over-regulation via groups like the FDA prevents us from getting healthy food and effective medication in many cases.

Something I only realized recently: the reverse is true too! By claiming the title of "arbiters of safety," they are _also_ able to hoodwink the world into believing that potentially unsafe things are safe.

Without a corrupted, agency-captured government department involved, the free market would ultimately decide whether various food additives are safe or not.

In other words, the evils of centralized power were worse than I'd originally thought.