Overnight Pizza and the Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines
Though the article reasonably paints the &quot;conservative&quot; (in the small-c&#x2F;non-political usage) position as driven by &quot;science&quot; or at least fear of being &quot;anti-science&quot;, there is in fact nothing scientific about it. It&#x27;s just a plain appeal to authority.<p>In fact the &quot;hick&quot; position is the scientific one. If someone eats unrefrigerated pizza ten times without any Adverse Events, then in fact that&#x27;s an experiment providing (admittedly crude) scientific data that, in fact, the chance of an Adverse Event is no worse than ~10%. (Pedant note: quick, dirty, wrong calculation because the exact value doesn&#x27;t matter here.)<p>Science, the process, really does work. Even if many of those who practice it don&#x27;t look like TV or press release scientists. And even if many &quot;Real Scientists&quot; aren&#x27;t really anything of the sort.