Medicine & Healthcare
Stop, just stop, you're just embracing yourself, and fooling no one.
The Science.
Honestly, the way a lot of people talk about how various things in biology, chemistry, pharmacology, engineering, etc. work, without actually understanding how they work, what scientific papers are ACTUALLY saying, whether the conclusions actually make sense or not, etc.
It makes me want to throw my degrees in engineering into a fire, because it makes it clear all the work people do in these fields means nothing to a public who'll take one sentence outta their conclusion (in many cases, out of context) and run with it.
And this is especially true whenever it's the media reporting on this kinda shit. No reading or studying the papers, just putting up a headline and if they're charitable, linking the papers.
The last two-three years were very eye opening that the average joe truly knows literally nothing about biology and medicine (and hospitals, and experts and the list goes on).
I recall that during the high of the pandemic, I showed a video about a guy going to a supposedly "packed" hospitals with a camera and showing it was mostly empty while the medical staff demanded he leave. I legit asked "how can the hospitals be packed? Whee are the lines? Why the doctors give a shit if he is recording or not?"
And my pea sized friend said "Well, its because they have protocols and dont want him possibly contaminating someone or being contaminated himself".
They literally defend the lie even tho Im raising fucking good questions instead of giving a good answer or at least be humble and say "idk how to explain that" because that would demonstrate to yourself you need to rethink and re consider things.
And now we are in the "this is normal" phase with all these healthy people dropping like flies out of nowhere. And they are trying to hide statistics that showed this sort of thing was very rare and now its suddenly "normal".
Its easier to trick the fool than convince him he has been tricked.
- Film making, tons of people seriously underestimate how much time, planning and organization goes into making even a short low budget film and have it turn out to be somewhat decent. Yet so many young "creative" types think they can just throw a film together like its no trouble at all.
When you have movies made by people who dont know the first thing about movie making you get the channel awesome anniversery specials.
Even James Rolf who has film making experience ended falling into some basic traps in movie making because he really wanted to record it in Hollywood LA, somehow not knowing its extremely expensive to work there (also the story was kind of trash and felt like it didnt want to pick if it wasnted to be something easier for the mainstream or strictly for fans of AVGN). He hasnt truly recovered since, which is sad but he really should have known better.
Aquariums! Just because a goldfish can survive in a ten gallon tank doesn’t mean it’s ok to put them in one. It’s cruel and results in a deformed fish being burned by it’s own ammonia output. Let your goldfish live a happy life in a 30-50 gallon tank (that’s for ONE goldfish) or don’t get a goldfish. Bettas should have at least five gallons. Don’t buy iridescent sharks or common plecos unless you’re willing to buy a monster tank.
Buy a water test kit and cycle your tank before putting fish in! So many people complain their fish die the first week, it’s because the tank isn’t cycled.
Society understands that it’s wrong to keep a dog in a tiny cage, but it’s socially acceptable to keep a fish in an undersized tank. The fish become physically stunted and deformed. Everything a person needs to know about basic fishkeeping can be learned from their phone, but most people choose ignorance (and unhappy/dead fish).
My theory is that they assume fishes are lesser beings than dogs and cats and thus require less effort.
- Economics has been mentioned already but the fact that most economists are usually wrong in their predictions just shows that even they don't know what they're talking about most of the time.
The actual truth is more akin to that South Park episode...no one really knows fully how the fuck the system works, its all predictions at most. Even the ones responsible for the economy really make it clear through their actions they have no idea what they are doing.
- Parenting, oddly a lot of people who don't have kids and express no desire to have kids like to lecture people on how to raise their kids.
"We dont have kids of my own and I find the concept of adding another being to this Earth disgusting but I demand that your child be exposed to my ideologies because thats how kids should be raised."
