People drink beer at tables setup outside a pub in Soho, London, Monday, April 12, 2021. Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo.

Unmasking the Fun Police

There is nothing wrong with choosing to abstain from alcohol and other intoxicating drugs. But taking one’s personal view and masquerading it as scientific, at taxpayers’ expense, and in turn lobbying the federal government for policy change, is another thing.