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> whatever arbitrary standard a bureaucrat You do know these people are scientific experts and have teams of scientific experts working for them, right. It’s n

• sophrosyne42 11mo ago
  No amount of scientific expertise will turn a subjective thing (which is what product quality is) into an objective thing. Credible, ethical, and well-trained scientists should be able to recognize that and desist from dressing up their preferences into scientific dress and passing it off as the results of objective science.
  • rusk 11mo ago
    > subjective thing There is nothing subjective about insulin quality you dimwit
    • sophrosyne42 11mo ago
      The quality of a product is subjective to the user of that product. This is a scientific fact of economics, and insistence otherwise is science denial.
      • rusk 11mo ago
        That’s why we have regulation LOL toxicity is not subjective Oh Lordy what has become of HN a load of fresh dummies with no grounding in the basic principles of libertarianism. All the fire none of the intellect. Just no sport.
        • sophrosyne42 11mo ago
          Sometimes the results of science are unintuitive, but they are facts all the same. The toxicity is an objective feature of the chemical properties of a substance. Whether, to what extent, and how people value such a substance due to its toxicity, and how this plays into their activities which might have assumed its nontoxicity is a subjective matter. The latter is what the manufactuerer is interested in when producing their product; if they consider the former objective fact, it is because the latter subjective evaluation makes the objective fact significant.