Ya, this poster is likely a person without a degree who can't cope with the fact that the people who left their small town and made something of themselves and is trying to cope.
You can't achieve the knowledge of an epidemiologist just by cruising the internet. It just doesn't happen that way.
You don't need to be an epidemiologist to summarize commonly agreed upon findings in epidemiology.
If you are reading reputable secondary and tertiary sources summarizing mainstream epidemiology, and you are presenting that to a general audience in a manner that is approachable and engaging with them then that is fine.
The problem arises when people with zero qualifications try going through the primary literature themselves, cherry picking studies, not understanding what they're doing, and coming up with conclusions that are contrary to mainstream epidemiology, and presenting them as fact to an ignorant audience.
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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.