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Would you like to talk about some of the absurd contrarian opinions that we see from the field of software engineering or venture capital? How about Linus Pauli
by ebiester 3y ago
Would you like to talk about some of the absurd contrarian opinions that we see from the field of software engineering or venture capital? How about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C?
The further one moves away from their field, the more we should disregard someone's opinions regardless of how smart or accomplished they are in their field.
- p-e-w 3y agoSoftware engineering and venture capital aren't, and aren't claiming to be, sciences. And Pauling lived a remarkably long life for someone who was hanging around in chemistry labs in the 1920s. Someone with that background dying at 93 is like a regular person dying at 113. So I would be careful to dismiss his ideas regarding health outright, even though most studies have been unable to confirm his claims. There is still plenty of serious research happening into Vitamin C megadoses, so clearly, not all scientists agree with the idea that this is quackery. And even if it indeed were completely and utterly wrong, it is still not even remotely comparable to the sheer audacity of Lacan's bullshit.
- waboremo 3y agoBoth of them are claiming to be sciences otherwise they wouldn't be under the economic science and computer science umbrellas.