Science Tech vs. Humanities

Recent Findings in Corporate Science

Scientific Certainty

"As with many nutrition tips, though, including some offered by the Dietary Guidelines, the tidbit about skipping breakfast is based on scientific speculation, not certainty, and indeed, it may be completely unfounded, as the experiment in New York indicated."

I simply do not understand how I can acquire the certainty that so many scientific folks have without litterally sacrificing my soul. :)  It seems like every time one grabs hold of something as the truth, and applies it to one's life...  a rug is pulled out from under one's feet.

Is it really a stretch to think that science, as a group of knowledgeable statements, is just as likely to be wrong as right? Or... is there something I need to know that tells me when to believe science and when to disbelieve it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/biz/what-nutritionists-may-have-gotten-wrong-about-skipping-breakfast/2015/08/10/9b4d5dcf71019a69d62701315ad34a4c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_draw

Science Tech

Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater offshore oil drilling rig owned by Transocean. An explosion on the rig caused by a blowout killed 11 crewmen, the resulting fire could not be extinguished and it sank on 22 April 2010, causing the largest oil spill in U.S. waters