Our top scientists can't figure out if tomatoes have salmonella but they are certain about global warming?

Question

Guess those darn tomatoes are too complex. maybe Al Gore can lend a hand.

Answer 1

and yet you probably fly on airplanes (designed and tested based on scientific knowledge), take medications (developed and tested by scientists), and believe that the earth revolves around the sun (again, from scientists)?

Testing for salmonella in tomato's is a simple process, if the tomato's are in hand.  But trying to determine how salmonella got into the system of individuals who've eaten many different foods prior to getting sick, isn't.

Maybe you simply lack sufficient training in science to understand the complexities of the real world.  And thus, you wrongly conclude that scientists don't know anything.

Answer 2

dadvice1, You're begining to catch on.

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Answer 3

Oil Business and all of those people who work for them will be like the Tomato Business and all the people who work(ed) for them -  Screwed!

Answer 4

The scientists Al hired to promote his scam are anything but 'top scientists'.  That would be like getting top scientists to prove the existence of UFO's or swamp monsters.  Most can't be bothered with global warming because there is too little science and too much politics involved.  Not that there aren't corrupt scientists, there are of course, but the truly 'top scientists' are absent from the AGW crowd.  To the AGW alarmists James Hansen is their top scientist...lol!  He is Al Gore's scientific advisor.

Answer 5

A few people getting salmonella is very insignificant in global terms. So there may be several scientists who have not stopped what they were doing to look into this. Some of the top scientists may have been left out of the problem.

We know that no tomatoes sold in Canada produced an infection, so go from there. We import tons of US and Mexican tomatoes.

Answer 6

our local weatherman can't get it right only two day's out

Answer 7

ITS NOT the tomatoes.....its most likely in the slaughter house where  animals  are killed for consumption I have been behind the trucks that carried the cows to  slaughter they were FILTHY   up to their ankles in S... the FDA knows this but if they confirm it China will put a STOP to accepting our beef  China has refused our beef for 5 years now  they want our beef because Americans don't want to see DOG MEAT on the menu believe me on this one

Answer 8

No, scientists know a lot of things, and our world is very different because of that. But many times the reality and mechanisms of complex systems escapes our understanding, as is the case for tracing salmonella, and for global warming. Airplanes by comparison are extremely simple systems.

Remember that at one time all the smartest scientists believed the world was flat. There was a "consensus"

But then again, AlGore wasn't around to help.

Answer 9

Not only that,but they are fortune tellers.  They knew everything about global warming even before the study of it even began.

Answer 10

The serious problem with this is very few if any of these people at any level including the doctors treating these patients know where this salmonella virus comes from and this includes all the people answering so far. Salmonella comes from fowl, especially from chicken and that is the only place you will ever find it.

So there are two possibilities of how it got onto somebody’s dinner plate and both of them come from criminally sloppy food handling at the restaurant the person ate at, not some farm or warehouse.

First if it was a chicken the person was eating then the chicken was not prepared correctly according to food preparation standards.

Second the food preparation people violated the rules about chicken and fish preparation areas being widely separated from areas handling beef and vegetables. In fact under all food handling laws you must wash your hands under hot running water when going between chicken/fish preparation and other areas of a kitchen just as if you were returning from a rest room.

This is the only way salmonella could have gotten to the tables where people eat. It is strictly and simply a sanitation problem at the restaurant where 99% of all food contamination problems arise.

Answer 11

The salmonella-tainted tomatoes had it on their skin. It's easy to test for this, but nobody does it because the time and expense are not considered worthwhile. The problem was in tracing the tainted tomatoes to their source, which is not a scientific problem.