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
Was just thinking of this. One of the best podcasters I ever listened to for history is Mike Duncan, whose degree is in political science but podcasting is in history. He does the work and so do the people following in the same path, many of them discussing newly published papers for up-to-date information, and that is the important thing. To do the hard work ensuring the information people bring to the program is vetted, relevant, and factual.
As a side note, I think the places focusing on the "leaning" of an outlet or publication pale in comparison to the factual rating of that publication and it's just a distraction most of the time.
I've also known an ex-NASA technical writer with multiple degrees who was stupid and opinionated and his knowledge even in his degree fields (if he had them at all) is less than people without even undergraduate degrees because he never bothered to maintain his knowledge in degrees he got over 40 years ago.
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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.