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This is especially true of legal issues here. I routinely see people giving advice for, or arguing over, points of law they clearly have only a surface level un
by mattmaroon 14y ago
This is especially true of legal issues here. I routinely see people giving advice for, or arguing over, points of law they clearly have only a surface level understanding of. I see people asking for legal advice on important topics, on which they could be seriously screwed by simple missteps no decent lawyer would make, and getting it from non-lawyers. I've probably sounded like a broken record over the years by saying "stop reading these and ask a lawyer".
It doesn't surprise me that the same thing happens with medical or other types of advice.
The bottom line is, don't take advice on anything specialized over the internet. Talk to a specialist, or do the loads of research yourself that it requires to form an educated opinion.
- praptak 14y agoThis is true, but: for many areas of expertise where I am pretty much ignorant, I wouldn't even know about existence of certain terms, ideas and starting points if I haven't first read about them on internet forums. With the obvious disclaimer that I usually do a followup readup on such topics. So "stop reading these and ask an expert" is obviously a good piece of advice for someone seeking resolution of their own serious problems but there's still value in reading internet discussions.