On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Theoretically....I could propound many more theories more bizarre than this...once again, I protest at the "could be/might be" theories parading as scientific research.
