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> medical device and drug engineering

is a special case exception, where rather than requiring licensing for the engineers building the product, we put detailled restrictions and regulations on what needs to be done (extensive testing, detailled evidence, monitoring programs, etc) before the product can be sold or marketed.

That is hardly an example of a field where risk-taking is encouraged and unlicensed persons are able to unleash their half-developed ideas on the public.

Do you have any other examples of fields which are "trending away" from licensing?



Aerospace and Automotive engineering would be more examples, and then the obvious case of software and hardware engineering.

As you point out, the trend is for self certification and government review, like is done for medicine, aircraft.

I don't think these are special cases, but the norm for any field developed after the 60's or so.

>risk-taking is encouraged and unlicensed persons are able to unleash their half-developed

That's your hostile strawman, not mine.




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