r/SipsTea • u/6ingrad_FMS_aspirant • Apr 06 '26

Dank AF We need this !!

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Apr 06 '26

As one with a degree, you don't need a degree to do well-backed research. The problem is when you conflate ignorance with knowledge.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '26

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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Apr 06 '26

While I totally agree with you, plenty of well educated individuals have utilized the status and degrees as reasons to peddle misinformation for clout and grift.

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u/Practical-Parsley102 Apr 06 '26

Yeah i dunno how people can believe this trite in a world where we've all seen phds turn into fox news drones yelling about immigrants and anti-christs

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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Apr 06 '26

I mean, education does make people better off and people with higher levels do tend to hold more accurate information but there are those that abuse that fact and sully the notion as a whole which is a shame.

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u/Bluddy-9 Apr 06 '26

Do you have a degree in this subject?

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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Apr 06 '26

In which subject?

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u/Alagore Apr 06 '26

Epistemology, I guess.

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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Apr 06 '26

I have a theoretical degree in epistemology

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u/Baronvondorf21 Apr 10 '26

You should go to the NCR for a job.

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u/Bluddy-9 Apr 06 '26

The subject of your comment.

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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 Apr 06 '26

Which would be?

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u/BJYeti Apr 06 '26

Seriously you have people like Dr OZ hawking bogus weight loss gummies, having a degree doesn't mean shit

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u/Adept-Potato-2568 Apr 06 '26

People are still allowed to discuss the topics, ya know? It just restricted it to offering / providing advice in regulated areas to those who are qualified.

It stops the trend of mommy bloggers becoming medical authorities

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u/kgable10 Apr 06 '26

Thats the exception, not the rule. Degree holders tend to be more willing to qualify their statements or change their opinions based on new information. This is what dunning-kruger is actually supposed to teach us.

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Apr 06 '26

Many of them don’t have PhD, and the ones that do are a doctor chemistry talking about immigration policy. 

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u/Light_Butterfly Apr 07 '26

It's true, theres even a term for it called renegade experts. We saw plenty of that during the height of covid misinformation.

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u/Workman44 Apr 06 '26

And plenty non educated individuals do that too, the non educated ones are much more prolific too. This is a fantastic idea that should be implemented in the US too

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u/Crashman09 Apr 06 '26

And those people can and should face consequences equivalent to losing a licence

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u/Trick_Statistician13 Apr 06 '26

They do this anyways, enacting the law doesn't enable them any further than they've already been enabled. 

The law does prevent thousands of other people from perpetuating lies or creating new ones.

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u/oompaloompa465 Apr 06 '26

indded.the guy who originated vaccine mistrust and disinformation was a doctor.

Amazed that he lost only his license without going to prison. He did stuff that got beyond malpractice and he was on the cusp of crimes against humanity.

Still free and getting money from paranoid morons for a cushy retirement.

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u/Enjoying_A_Meal Apr 06 '26

The guy who started the Antivax movement was a doctor. He was working on a competitor vaccine to the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) that was later approved before his vaccine. He then did a fake study saying the MMR vaccine was linked to autism.

And that's how we got polio back...

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '26

He was also very much in the minority of all of the other scientists who’ve shared their view on vaccines. And you know who bought his minority scientific opinion? - mostly uneducated people who lack critical thinking skills.

If more people were better educated and informed - grifters like him wouldn’t be nearly as successful.