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Well, at least he wasn't arrested and barred from flying: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/16/southwest-air...

These sort of events really highlight how dangerous the combination of stupidity and fear is.

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It's witch-hunting, isn't it. Amist the hype of fear, you'd better not showing your knowledge on anything, (for the witch, it's knowledge on herb and natural healing).

Well, to be fair, "knowledge on natural healing" kills more people than terrorism these days... :/

:) oh come on, every field has the problem of faker and pretentious practitioner. Because studying everything takes serious effort, hence if you're lazy, you get empathy, but if you work hard while people around you don't, you get the hypothesis that you're elitist and fancy. And they have ground for that hypothesis, because It's true that faking wisdom gets some glamour too.

Yes, here's an excellent video outlining the key factors at work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E

And http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/easyj...

All 3 cases are women reporting men, which is interesting.

> All 3 cases are women reporting men, which is interesting.

It's meaningless; the sample is far too small and also not representative of the population of such reports.

A better explanation, that highlights how it isn't just "stupidity", but the combination of stupidity and ambition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmZOZjHjT5E

> how dangerous the combination of stupidity and fear is

Not dangerous at all, it's really quite convenient.

Can't have all those people sloshing around unsupervised, or even apparently unsupervised. Gotta show 'em.

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