Scientific instruments and people who believe in scientific “consensus” are a dangerous combination.
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The deep end is at the other end of the pool.
Your comment is just a tad overstated. I’d venture that 10’s of thousands times a day, scientific instruments and the consensus of medical professionals work absolute wonders.
To mix my metaphors horribly, feel free to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Recommending the death penalty needs a better record than 90% obviously they were wrong, if they were wrong then they could not have been certain, and if they were not certain they should not have made the recommendation until they became certain. Your best estimated guess does not support a death sentence.
Medicine is an art, not a science.
Climatology, where consensus is King, is supposed to be a science.