• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I had a physics professor tell me about free energy. Having a degree is not 100% effective in curing stupid.

    There are physicists that don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that is to be expected because that subject isn’t in their wheelhouse; it isn’t their bread-and-butter, and that isn’t their day job that they work on for 2,000+hrs a year for decades on end. So they are lacking a lot of the data that would allow them to make correct decisions regarding factuality.

    But when most of an academic field is saying the exact same thing about a core subject that is at the foundation of their discipline, imma not gonna be arrogant enough to presume that they’re wrong. I’m going to take them exactly at their word.

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      Out of curiosity, have some sources for “most of the academic field”? It sounds like some sociology/psychology thing.

      Besides, my guy had a PhD in physics. Either it was an elaborate prank, or a complete nutcase. And I’ve met more than one of that kind, sadly. Degrees are not a guarantee for intelligence or sanity, just a proof that at some point they wrote a thesis.