You don't agree with the synthetic meat and bug ban either?

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Nope. But I don’t know enough about either issue to really comment.

Generally, my feeling is that if there is some scientifically provable (repeatable, real science; not sciencism) reason that something is harmful to human health then I can see space for regulation.

To me that’s one of the core roles of government, set clear rules of the game for a society based on provable reality.

Banning because something might be a bad idea or because you disagree with someone else’s judgement of what’s valuable or not isn’t ok.

So science should lead instead of concensus?

On things that are scientific in nature, yeah. Consensus that the world is flat does not make it so.

Obviously that leaves a lot that is more about the values of a society, which is where consensus matters.

Interesting question.