At some point “protecting” people becomes really just a way of protecting corporate profit models and political power bases. A free human gets to choose what to believe, but slaves are only told what their overseers think they should know “for their own good.”
Personally, I am not willing to accept the FDA’s judgement of what is “accurate” or “consistent with science” if that means some mysterious unelected government watchmen are going to prevent me from receiving information. And if that means some idiot chooses to self-mutilate, so be it; I will not prevent that person’s free expression of their own belief “for their own good”.
