Comment by jacquesm

If you did you'd have been in very good company because the world over the scientific consensus was that opioids were addictive.

That scientific consensus you are alluding to is not what you claim it was.

Finally, we're talking about celebrities without any qualification whatsoever spreading utter nonsense causing real harm, you can look at that in isolation and compare it to you making that statement out of an abundance of caution regarding something where there is no downside. The two simply are not equivalent. Free speech absolutists always pull the same trick, aiming to refuse an obvious wrong in order to defend their bastion while forgetting that there isn't a black-or-white at all, you can have some reasonable limits on what people can and can not do and in the age of 'influencers' with global reach the danger is much more prevalent than it used to be.

Free speech is a great good, but it is not the greatest good.