> This is a fact, as established by scientific studies. It's also an incredibly weak claim. It makes an extremely qualified statement about a very broad set of

> This is a fact, as established by scientific studies. It's also an incredibly weak claim. It makes an extremely qualified statement about a very broad set of things. You could just as easily say "any object left on the kitchen counter overnight may poison you" and that would be true even if the incidence of poisoning by recipe card in kitchens is approximately zero. Let alone the meat products that literally exist to be stored in the open. Something loosely deriving from scientific studies is no more 'science' just for that fact than something deriving from uncontrolled empirical evidence is. In this case the statement is so obvious as to be kind of useless for prediction.