Quote Originally Posted by Bastian
My point there was that if raw milk was notorious for killing people, we would have stopped drinking it ages ago. Yet it is a staple.
This is a non-sequitur; your conclusion does not follow from your premise. First off, you're assuming that anyone criticizing raw milk must be saying that raw milk is so much worse than the rest of the unsanitary, diseased-filled crap people ate and drank for millennia (hence the short lifespan). That's not at all what we're saying. Drinking contaminated water has killed millions over recorded history, too. But like filtered water is considered much, much safer than water from a puddle outside, pasteurized milk is also considered safer than raw milk. Technology tends to do that.

Yes, modern science can be mistaken. The difference is when those mistakes come out, the scientific method works to correct them. The impact of pasteurization and the risks of raw milk seem to have been studied thoroughly over generations -- so your analogy to a modern product (where the mistake was apparently corrected eventually) is highly misleading. It is also interesting to note that there is no equally critical self-examination and study among the "alternative medicine" practitioners.