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I've often found quite the opposite. I've been amazed at how knowledgeable HNers are about random and obscure science and medicine.
by pedalpete 12y ago
I've often found quite the opposite. I've been amazed at how knowledgeable HNers are about random and obscure science and medicine.
- gus_massa 12y agoIt's more complicated. For each obscure subject, there are one or two users that are experts or at least have enough knowledge. The problem is that there is a big amount of enthusiastic, that are exited about the new possible result and forget to see that it's almost sure a incorrect result. In some threads the enthusiastic user overhead the experts. A typical subject (without political interest) is faster than light travel. Or in other words: http://xkcd.com/955/ http://xkcd.com/955/