It's amazing how quickly people forget about Dunning-Kruger effect and how often people widely acclaimed for their academic prowess will reveal themselves ignorant when trying to act as an authority outside their field.d
Why would the comments or upvoted articles be any less problematic here than on facebook? Being really good at one thing (mostly tech) does not mean you're really good at all things.
It's fascinating on this board right now. So many medical experts. So many people who are experts at what metric is the best and most relevant metric. So many people who are, I'm betting, talking out of their knowledge base, but doing it articulately, instead of through memes, so that makes it better?