Matt McIrvin on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 Even highly educated people can fall prey to this kind of ...
npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 (npub1zdp…vqv8) Even highly educated people can fall prey to this kind of thinking, often out of the belief that the expertise they already have should be enough to have *everything* figured out.
Physicists are notorious for thinking they have the key to understanding other fields of knowledge better than the people who are actually working on them, because they're such intellectual generalists. And sometimes they become kind of crankish as they "go emeritus".
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