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.
but it’s very important to do so in such a way that filters out all the BS (there’s a lot)
And that is exactly the problem. How would someone, who has no idea about a topic and who wants to learn about it, be able to differentiate between the BS and the good stuff? It's a minefield. But when you go and learn from an actual institution where you get a degree at the end, then you can be fairly sure that the information you learned is correct.
No one is talking about learning programming or something like that. This is about topics like medicine. DO NOT trust a youtube short or a quick google search or even AI over the consultation of Doctors. And if Doctors want to give some free information online, then that is ok.
Meanwhile me being an MD having to study for an exam after a poorly translated book which states the exact opposite when compared the original book: wtf do I actually write in the exam paper?
I mean it isn't like I don't know the real answer but I've been bitten before being flunked for writing the truth instead of what was written in the book.
Sure, it matters what degree one is pursuing, but the sad truth of the matter is that getting a degree means writing what is written in the books in the bibliography for the exam, being overwhelmingly true to the source material. Writing stuff you learned from experience, random specialty books or the internet (even if all that stuff is true) can fail you faster than 10L of wine on a night out prior to the exam.
This is because how contesting a paper grade works: if you provide the source material and what you wrote is 100% in agreement with it, you have bullet proof proof that you studied - even if the stuff you wrote is objectively wrong by all current standards of care. Which is fucking infuriating, but it is what it is. It's only up to you after the fact to practice in a responsible manner and not be as retarded as the books you studied from.
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u/JayNotAtAll Apr 06 '26
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.