> It smells like few people here are mathematicians, and yet they're speaking with reddit levels of hubris, attributing simpletons' logical fallacies to a publi

> It smells like few people here are mathematicians, and yet they're speaking with reddit levels of hubris, attributing simpletons' logical fallacies to a published astrophysicist. I fully understand the need of respecting the authority of experts, but it doesn't automatically mean they are always right or are immune to logical fallacies. Prime example is a persona of Linus Pauling - a Nobel Prize winner, who despite being called one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time, was the one behind a huge popularity of pseudoscience around vitamin C. And funny how you mentioned Reddit, because I have a PhD biology researcher who spammed his research paper on several unrelated subreddits and had audacity to talk back when called out for it. Heck, he was upset with moderators of r/eli5 [sic!], because his post (academic paper!) was removed. You can see my argument with him here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lezh2o https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lezh2o