`:::::::I fail to see how `` I'm willing to bet you aren't.`` is in anyway relevant to establish Crichton's presumed qualification, but maybe I'm quaint that way. And I'm sure you have something better to offer than scientific consensus when we decide wether to inoculate or not, how to build a bridge, or how to compute the trajectory of a bullet. However, going with scientific consensus has served the rest of us better than the other methods tried. No, science never offers absolute guarantees, not can it ever prove anything true in the mathematical sense. But overall it is nearly always less wrong than nearly all of the alternative opinions freely provided by cranks, cooks, and the average Joe. That's why we do science.    `