[pixl97]

> that's a reasonable indication to not eat that type of carrot,

That's also why we avoided eating non-poisonous tomatoes for centuries leaving food proverbably on the table. The world experienced far more rapid progression when we started demanding reproducible evidence for reproducible events.

[ironmagma]

Which is a perfectly reasonable survival strategy. No, you might not reach a global maximum with it, but a local maximum is probably good enough in exchange for people not dying due to unknown causes.