Death or newsworthy illness is not my only concern. I'm also worried about stomach discomfort that prevents me from sleeping, repeatedly farting so loud the neighbors can hear it, and diarrhea that makes me have to rearrange my schedule to take a day off--things that happened to me recently due to being cavalier about food safety. That's not going to come up in the author's research, because I just took my best guess at the culprit and made a note to be more careful in the future.

Eat the pizza if you want, and most the time you'll probably be fine. But the author's depiction of the risk model (college students in body bags) isn't what I'm thinking about when I make the decision.