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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (3 children)

doctors can have really shit opinions too

the real message is: every opinion must be scrutinized heavily, if it stands scrutiny maybe there's something there

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It depends on what they're talking about. I'll listen to and generally heed a doctors medical opinion, for example. Their political opinion? Eh..

Joe Rogan, who has doesn't have expertise in anything comparable to a doctors expertise in medicine, no way I'm talking anything he says at face value.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In my experience doctors can have some of the absolute worst opinions. Especially highly educated speciality doctors who have spent 1/3 of their life doing nothing but studying their very specific field. Lawyers too.

I work in IT and they can be some of the worst users to work with.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Honestly this is true of many smart people in specialized professions

Infamously software developers are fucking knuckle dragging morons about anything that has nothing to do with what they're good at, but they think they're god kings and think the world works like a computer

The only hallmark of intelligence I subscribe to is when someone just acknowledges they don't know everything and listen. Everyone else is doom spiraling into thought terminating patterns while thinking they're right

[–] kopasz7 7 points 2 days ago

Life is just a big design pattern. ☕︎☕︎

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I like to make the distinction between competence and intelligence. There are some overlaps, but they are mostly distinct.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 6 points 2 days ago

Specialists are experts in their field. Much like many of the IT people they fall into the trap of “Im smart because my job requires it so therefore every opinion I have is intelligent” and that simply isn’t how it really works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Always remember: The vaccines cause autism bullshit was started by a fully licensed doctor.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A fully-licensed doctor who, if I remember correctly, had invested in a company developing an alternative to the existing vaccinations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Literally killing people for money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well he ain't a fully licensed doctor no more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

And it took them 12 years to do it.