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How am I supposed to select a decent widget from the market? Buy them all? Think really hard about it? I do not understand your position at all.

Nobody is 'averse to thinking for themselves'. But there are millions of scientific and economic decisions made every day and it's unrealistic to expect everyone to fully vet all of them. Additionally, stupid people are gulible and easily preyed upon by the unscrupulous. It's not unreasonable to delegate product oversight to a government commission, whose opinions consumers can choose to seek/abide by, or not.

I am amazed (or saddened) but not surprised at how averse people are to the idea of people cleaning after themselves.

Why do people expect a functioning sewage system, instead of traking their poop to the ocean themselves?

Why do they expect the beach to be free of excrement, instead of cleaning it themselves? Why do they expect a recycling dystem to actually recycle plastic instead of defrauding them and dumping it in malasia?

Well, then they also expect the reviews to be non-fraudulent?