• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Let’s just stop caring what celebrities think, please. Unless they have education in science, economics, international relations, or other relevant areas they are even less qualified than random people on the street, as they are rich and likely out of touch with reality in multiple ways.

    • cecilkorik@piefed.ca
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      Let’s just stop caring what celebrities think, please. Unless they have education in science etc…

      Mayim Bialik has a PhD in neuroscience and she’s a vaccine skeptic and has a host of other offensively stupid ideas, so clearly not even having an education really counts as qualifications anymore.

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        There have been Nobel Prize winners who have held completely crackpot ideas outside of the often narrow field of research for which they won their prize: Shockley and Kary Mullis, to name two.

        And it’s not like Bialik is an immunologist. What’s neuroscience got to do with vaccines?

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          and remember that PHD that was obsessed with race being “lesser than whites” under certain profession(i believe he was a psychologist)

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        alot of STEM people are nutty to, when they get drawn into a cult. i was in a forum about lyme and these middle aged white people(are the predominant members in this cult), some of them has a MS in sciences and believed in “lyme being a forever disease”{