Apologies for misreading your comment, but you did describe a pizza cementing your view. We all have cognitive biases, including the most intelligent, accompli

Apologies for misreading your comment, but you did describe a pizza cementing your view. We all have cognitive biases, including the most intelligent, accomplished people anywhere. Plenty of research shows that the placebo effect is a very real phenomenon (even when we are told we're being given a placebo pill it can still help!) I wasn't trying to change your mind on anything covid related; just about how we all let anecdotes convince us of pre-existing beliefs. And even if you personally didn't need that lesson, I still think it needed to be explained for anyone reading your comments considering their implication that a one off pizza event was enough to impact your views (even if that's not how you intended the comment to mean). Edit to add: of course, the mechanisms behind cognitive biases can be helpful! If a doctor says X will help and then X does help, it's good that our brains automatically process that as being more likely true than if it hadn't worked. But they can be unhelpful, too.