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Obviously almost everyone who claims this on the internet is full of it. Full of themselves and full of shit.
That said, with time, patience, study and luck you can contribute meaningfully to an expert understanding of the world! A year or two back it was an amateur enthusiast who discovered that some markings near cave paintings of animals may correlate with reproductive cycles for those animals - an interpretation that gathered some expert support.
Someone once solved a 25 year old math problem and posted the proof on 4chan.
I love the subtitle. The fact that it was
A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series' episodes, in every possible order
makes it completely believable.
Wasn't the formula to calculate turbulence from a russian math genius who lives somewhere in the woods, appeared with the solution and disappeared again?
I think you may be conflating something with the story of Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture (with its 1 million dollar prize), rejected the prize and basically told the math world to stuff it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
Yeah, not super long ago some kid discovered that an animal wasn't endangered while doing a research paper for school.
Right, but people don't actually say that, do they? It's more like
"Honey, I found some information that the world's top scientists and doctors are being paid to hide"
Or:
"Honey, I found some information that the world's top scientists and doctors are ignoring/minimizing due to biases".
I've just started seeing information that the world's top scientists and doctors have known about for some time, but that large business interests have been strategically covering up to protect against a public backlash.
And I still want my cut of that money damnit! I mean hiding the true secrets of quantum mechanics from the rest of the world really starts losing its appeal if all hush money payments are always late...
"Mr. Snowden, how am I supposed to take any of this seriously. If a globe-spanning internet-encompassing spy program existed, don't you think we'd have heard about it by now?"
Well... Yes. This is what researchers do. It's part of science. Now you take the new data, form a falsifiable hypothesis, and do empirical experiments. Publish your research. The cycle is complete
Yeah. All that jazz too... But it's right here on Facebook. Isn't that evidence enough?
It also says the government doesn’t want us to know about it. It must be true suppressed information.
tHEy CaLL It tHeOrY BEcaUsE ITs NoT A FaCT!
The cycle is complete
The cycle is NEVER complete. It's ongoing until someone else proves you were wrong and they were a bit more correct.
The comic is mostly referring to physics crackpots. People outside academia who rejects current established physics in favor of their own pet theories.
Also with medicine
Like how I reject quantum superposition in favor of my pet theory that it's really only in one state and the superposition is just a convenient way to refer to the chances of each when you can't observe it because your observation tools will interfere with it?
Y'all laugh, but I know how secretly good for me drinking lead-sweetened borax water is!
This is my hope, that these “researchers” will eventually take themselves out of the gene pool when they finally find some website claiming that drinking bleach will kill any cancer but “the globalists” have managed to hide that information from the masses.
Honey! It turns out viruses bigger than 5-10 microns CAN be airborne! Lots of bigger viruses are airborne! Some engineer told me! Yes, I know he's not a doctor and the CDC says otherwise.
The guy who came up with that number was doing secret bioweapon research on weaponizing TB! Yes, I know it's not very secret if the results ended up in every textbook in the last 70 years.
But the Chinese are using air filters to fight it!
-Like 10 people in 2020 when everyone was washing groceries and not wearing masks.
You can also get Casandra Syndrome if you apply some critical thought to the news.
More like the client who paid for my firms services coming in, belittling the very professionals they paid to do their job and acting as if they know better.
Oh. I just thought that's how things worked. You hire a consultant and pay them a bunch of money to tell you to do something that half of every current employee is already telling you to do, that you're definitely not going to do anyway, then you vehemently disagree with the consultants.
Is that not the consulting process?
Yep, this is going in my reply images folder
"Albert, you're just a patent clerk. Do you really think you figured out something all those scientists around the world haven't?"
The difference is he was a patent clerk working on his PhD thesis, not some keyboard warrior browsing Facebook 12h a day.....
"Frank, all the experts say those books are just made up stories. Stop chasing the ghost of Helen and that damned city."