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If there was a good point to this poorly worded rant I couldn't stick around long enough to find it. The evidence given for our intellectuals being clueless is
by mattnewton 10y ago
If there was a good point to this poorly worded rant I couldn't stick around long enough to find it.
The evidence given for our intellectuals being clueless is the low replicability of psychology and pharmaceutical studies, and no thought is given to the fact that maybe, this stuff is hard, and maybe it's exponentially hard to keep up the exponential progress we've seen.
Maybe people are trying hard to work on hard things to help others, and they get righteous articles deriding them as elitist hacks for their troubles.
- tlb 10y agoFair enough. But to a non-intellectual, it must seem crazy that the supposed intellectuals can't tell him whether a drug works or not, or whether eating fat or sugar makes you fat. Part of being non-intellectual is believing that there are simple answers to simple questions.