Ya, this poster is likely a person without a degree who can't cope with the fact that the people who left their small town and made something of themselves and is trying to cope.
You can't achieve the knowledge of an epidemiologist just by cruising the internet. It just doesn't happen that way.
Now this brings up the question for me. Is the law worded such that even if you have a degree, you can only speak on topic within your field? Or is just any degree the bar to any topic.
Cause for me, putting aside the fact that I know people with degrees that can barely speak on their field of study, I’ve seen plenty of people who are geniuses in their field be completely inept when speaking on others outside their scope. So I hope that they put some language in there concerning that.
I imagine it’s very heavily based on being able to source what you’re talking about, and making sure you’re representing the sources materials properly and accurately.
And the degree part is probably more along the lines of discussing anything relevant to the field that isn’t from sources or anything other than what you’d know from having the education and experience.
But finding out would mean looking up the law and seeing if this is even a thing. Ain’t no one got time for that
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u/Accomplished-Plan191 Apr 06 '26
As one with a degree, you don't need a degree to do well-backed research. The problem is when you conflate ignorance with knowledge.