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> Even someone who is uneducated or does not know of scientific method will reason with what they see themselves. This is really the subject of the entire book

• tripzilch 9y ago
  Maybe it's easier for people (here) to understand to consider that it goes the other way just as well. Being educated on ways that food/drink can be contaminated also results in certain people getting truly physically nauseous if they consume food or drink that they believe could have been potentially contaminated. You probably know some people like this. "mmm these pineapple chunks for the fridge taste tingly and slightly alcoholic, did you marinate them in sparkling booze or such?" "probably just fermented a bit, they're five days old" "hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk" There's much more situations like this, food that fell on the ground, or un(der)cooked meat. People that have a firm basic understanding of how germs work, have some pretty irrational beliefs their ability to teleport to the insides of uncut raw-but-seared-on-the-outside muscle tissue. And many will remain queesy about it, even if you teach them. My point is, you can lead a horse to water but you can't teach it to fish if it wants to keep warm for the rest of its life.