• 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”{