On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:09 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 17 Oct 2011 9:42:35 pm Eugen Leitl wrote: >> professor of horticulture at New Mexico >> State University and director of the Chile Pepper Institute, says that >> chili peppers can indeed cause death — but most people's bodies would >> falter long before they reached that point. "Theoretically, one could eat >> enough really hot chiles to kill you," >> > Disingenuous is the word. The good professor isn't being too professional as > he professes to prophesize on the matter.
Um ... why would anyone expect a professor of _horticulture_ to have any real expertise in what would or would not kill a _human_? This ties into what Ben Goldacre says in Bad Science that, for the media, science is authoritative sounding pronouncements made by men in white coats. -- b
