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> Im not a specialist here, but this babbling just suggest me someone unable to think out of the box, restricting all possibles to only what he can master.

This is a prime example of Asimov's quote: "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"

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Well, at which extent this applies to our current case ? Or is it just a way to look smart, by just citing a famous reference without contextualising to our current issue ?

Alevskaya talks about their experience as a biologist, and what their take is on this paper. And your response was, “I don’t understand any of that, so there’s probably nothing there to understand”.

This is not what i said. i suggest you to understand what you read.

first the guy claims he is a scientist and continue with some obfuscated babbling mixing emotional tone and hazardous outcome. Which at first and second read, isnt a scientific neutral analysis and critics.

Therefore it left only the "trust me bro" posture. Which is far from beeing efficient at all.

> and continue with some obfuscated babbling mixing emotional tone and hazardous outcome

Just because you’re unfamiliar with molecular biology doesn’t make it obfuscated babbling.

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