People who would never think they were capable of comment on, say, nuclear reactor design with an hours study never the less think they’re qualified to talk about the health effects of xyz based on about as much.
Now, if only contemporary medicine were as capable of understanding its subject as nuclear engineering...
In general, objects which are deliberately designed by humans are easier to understand than objects which arose from evolution. This is true even when one tries to apply genetic algorithms to build simple circuits or antenna- trying to understand why they work can frequently be very hard.
If only even a single human cell was even close to as simple as a nuclear reactor. Physics students with merely 2 or 3 years experience can talk about such things with reasonable authority. A doctor with a decade of study is still a newbie.
As it is it’s like trying to decompile a 6Gb self modifying probabilistic program with no documentation and no debugger, running on self modifying hardware designed by the self modifying program itself.
That they’ve been able to figure out anything concrete at all is remarkable. That every nutter with a random idea feels they have equal standing to people who’ve worked in the field for one or more decades is going to piss people off.
Now, if only contemporary medicine were as capable of understanding its subject as nuclear engineering...
In general, objects which are deliberately designed by humans are easier to understand than objects which arose from evolution. This is true even when one tries to apply genetic algorithms to build simple circuits or antenna- trying to understand why they work can frequently be very hard.
If only even a single human cell was even close to as simple as a nuclear reactor. Physics students with merely 2 or 3 years experience can talk about such things with reasonable authority. A doctor with a decade of study is still a newbie.
As it is it’s like trying to decompile a 6Gb self modifying probabilistic program with no documentation and no debugger, running on self modifying hardware designed by the self modifying program itself.
That they’ve been able to figure out anything concrete at all is remarkable. That every nutter with a random idea feels they have equal standing to people who’ve worked in the field for one or more decades is going to piss people off.