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To all the others saying intelligent anti-vaxxer is an oxymoron, you can be brilliant in some fields and have doorknob level intelligence in others.
by magashna 7y ago
To all the others saying intelligent anti-vaxxer is an oxymoron, you can be brilliant in some fields and have doorknob level intelligence in others.
- rpmisms 7y agoI personally don't dismiss his work, but Linus Pauling is probably an example you would like.
- magashna 7y agoI usually consider Ben Carson as a modern and well known example.
- rpmisms 7y agoI had no idea Ben Carson was a vaccine skeptic. To be fair, he's only a neurosurgeon, so I'm sure we all know better than him about this. To clarify, he's only a pediatric neurosurgeon who pioneered procedures previously pondered as preposterous. This is actually something he's a recognized expert on, but because he holds a different opinion than you, he must be wrong. He's not even antivax, he just thinks that newborns shouldn't receive a full round of shots immediately after birth, but that they should be spaced out. What an idiotic, uninformed individual.
- ceejayoz 7y agoI don't think Carson's anti-vax. I think he's being used as an example of someone who can be brilliant in one specialty while demonstrating /u/magashna's "doorknob level intelligence" in other fields like Egyptian archeology.
- magashna 7y agoPrecisely. I remember hearing him in his debates years ago and the jokes about "well it's not like he's a brain surgeon...what!?"
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoBen Carson's views on pediatric vaccines might or might not be well founded but his views on Egyptology certainly proves the point well that expertise in one area doesn't prevent one from being very poorly informed in another.
- homonculus1 7y ago>pediatric neurosurgeon who pioneered procedures previously pondered as preposterous "Practitioner" would have made a beautiful 7x combo
- rpmisms 7y agoOoh, nice. Thanks!