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Expertise often does NOT transfer across scientific disciplines! 🙃 These days we have physicians, psychiatrists, ‘human biologists,’ physicists, brilliant entrepreneurs, billionaires, and various REALLY SMART people making REALLY STUPID claims. Many people say “but look how smart they are, they wouldn’t believe in bullshit!” YES THEY ABSOLUTELY WOULD! Don’t... show more
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It makes you wonder if that’s what made them win the Nobel Prize in the first place—the ability to go off the well tread path in the pursuit of a crazy idea—only to stick with it until they actually arrived at the answer. Probably started with people thinking they were chasing some stupid idea.

What’s your scientific expertise in given your admission that your PhD was bunk?

As someone who has taught in higher education for a while, expertise doesn’t transfer into effective teaching either

“And they also thought water was wet; can you believe it?!”

This is rampant in the health and wellness space...and don't even get me started on the "longevity" space.

Wrong on Vitamin C. Second most important electron donor behind glutathione. Layne whines “Where’s the human RCT that proves it”. Just stop taking vitamin C bro. Wrong on CICO, terrain matters, fat adapted matters, mitochondrial uncoupling matters, macro comp matters.

hanlons razor is peak razor

'& believed in eugenics' and? you'd be hungry without it

People with PhDs tend to be among the worst offenders.

How dare you invoke Hitchens
