I was just listening to someone talking about how regulation is more or less so successful (in this case, it was general regulation, such as worker safety, consumer safety) and that's what makes it possible to have these radicals scratching their head and using this appeal to ignorance in order to postulate that we don't need regulation - or else very, very little.


And I was reminded of similar lines of reasoning explaining the rise of anti-vaxxer irrationality as well. Makes a lot of sense to me. People with any sense of history would never argue for such nonsense in either case, but ignorance in one area opens the door to regulation denialism, and ignorance in another permits vaccine denialism.