• EnthusiasticNature94
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    5 hours ago

    I agree with Dr. Jey McCreight on the science.

    But for determining truth, both sides are wrong here.

    Dunning-Kruger is bad, but so is credentialism and appeal to authority.

    Many people with PhD’s have had Dunning-Kruger. Someone else mentioned Ben Carson being great at neurosurgery, but not politics.

    A PhD doesn’t make you infallible.

    I am saying this as someone who is taking graduate-level courses and will be pursuing my PhD. When I’m correct, it’s not because my future PhD causes reality to magically conform to my opinions - it’s because I rigorously looked at the evidence, logic, and formed my own conclusion that better aligns with reality.

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      Listing Ben Carson as “not great at politics” when he was a polling national candidate for the highest office in the world is a wee bit of wild work. That’s like saying Kevin Durant is not great at basketball.

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        Sure, but that’s another discussion and is irrelevant to my point.

        You should take it to the commentor who originally said that.

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          4 hours ago

          Exactly, imagine if we threw away the entire peer review process and made it about, “Well I have a PhD! Checkmate.”

          We’d descend into a dark age for science.

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        Experts often disagree.

        If it were that easy, everything would be solved. We wouldn’t need so much research or so many universities.