I never understood why someone needs a license to fish, poachers are going to poach regardless. It's just another funding mechanism where people pay to keep poachers from poaching. If they are that worried about it let them fund it. Really no difference than having a license for a gun, people who aren't suppose to have a gun will still get a gun if they want it. I don't know why hairstylist need a license either if all they are going to do is cut hair, if they are going to be using chemicals than yes but what's the worse that can happen cutting hair outside of it will grow back and you learn not to go to that hairstylist again if they messed up your hair. There are reasons though why a great deal of people need to be licensed, like brain surgeon, would you really want to be operated on by someone who claimed to be one but wasn't? I am a cosmetologist and an electrologist, both require a license, I wouldn't want someone burning my scalp off with chemicals or burning holes in my face trying to remove hair, so some things I can see while others just don't add up.
Do people still get hurt by licensed people?
If somebody harms another they would be liable except the control freaks say we can't pitchfork 'em anymore, only they can do that.
Yet another license taking away freedom.
Any chemistry I need a license to use is not chemistry I want to rub on my head, call me crazy if you like.
All the time.
One thing I learned when I was in school was that there was those who were naturally talented, those who like to spin around in their chairs talking gossip and those few who like to hit the books. So yeah people are going to get hurt because you really don't know how much they put into earning that title. There should be a data base that lets you know how many times a person had to test before they finally got a license. I wasn't very popular because I was one who hit the books. Mainly because I knew I was never going to work for a year in a salon as required before opening my own shop, I was just going to wait a year and do so I knew I had to do my best to learn from the books more so than from experience. I think I was more popular afterward when I had some of them calling me asking me questions they missed on their exams. When I went to electrology school, which doesn't have a time requirement to spend working for someone else, they told me not only did I pass my state exams with the highest score in the history of the school but I did the course in record breaking time. Part of that was having to travel to the other side the state to go to school. I stayed in motel/hotel rooms so I booked them a week at a time, I didn't take up offers to stay at local students homes, go to the bars, sight seeing, etc., I just wanted to get it done so I stayed in the rooms I rented studying. Being at school was interesting enough for me because they had a lot of students whose families came from other countries, we'd hold pot lucks and share different ethic foods which was way cooler than going to see a polar bear at the zoo or sit around drinking beers in a bar.
In our current environment it's pretty obvious those who will trade integrity for profit. We knew that of course considering those who have been caught as pill peddling doctors but now we can see the extreme some will go through for name recognition and money despite they know they are on the wrong side of science. How would we ever know who to trust if we never had people who went the extra mile for their degrees, those same degrees and licenses earned them prestige and recognition above the others. Take for instance Walensky, she has a two year degree in biology, (I am not one hundred that's what her degree is but it is only two years whatever it was), and a course she took in organizing medial professional conferences. That's the only way we have to gage her against people like Peter Mccullough, who has several degrees, was so accomplished he didn't have to have his publications reviewed by a board before publication, he could publish in journals without those reviews. This is how we tell the differences from the snake oil salesman.