Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[trappedslider]

Starting a petition to rename that new tag, at least for April Fool's Day if nothing else, to a new name: Plagiarism and Hallucinations.

only if the block feature is also reverse to where it only shows you post from those people/tags and nothing else

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm presuming you mean "optometrists" here, by "eye doctors," and not "ophthalmologists." (Though the latter could fall under your "crappy MDs" thing.)

Sometimes its seemed to be possibly genuine MDs operating outside their field of expertise. There are a couple of notorious public examples of people who were apparently quite good within their specialty but that said things about, say, epidemiology that were pretty insane.

 

[Autumnal]

You know if you’re one of the people who needs this.

 

[el-remmen]

Parts of this convo is reminding me how in my overview of how to vet sources for academic research, I would bring up an example about how to avoid the trap of an appeal to personal authority made by someone without the training to have that authority.

I would show them articles by an actual professor on all sorts of cultural issues who used his doctorate as shield for his retrograde opinions. Turns out, his PhD was in Geology.

Now, I am not saying a geologist can't also have knowledge of cultural studies, but you can't (or at least shouldn't) use your geology degree as the reason why your position in other wholly unrelated fields should be accepted by others.

Edit: The fact that these articles were not published in academic journals of cultural studies or the humanities more broadly (or even in science journals somehow), was another hint.

 

[Alzrius]

There's no point in calling that particular poster out on their poor attitude; notwithstanding a few rare exceptions, all of their posts are made in that repugnant tone.

 

[RealAlHazred]

There's no point in calling that particular poster out on their poor attitude; notwithstanding a few rare exceptions, all of their posts are made in that repugnant tone.

I prefer to call it "my unique character." Thanks for noticing!

 

[prabe]

I prefer to call it "my unique character." Thanks for noticing!

This is not an attitude, it's my personality.

 

[Alzrius]

That was some dude in iron armor who ran through, shot me, and then kept going, straight as an arrow across the parking lot...

You were in the way and I was in a hurry.

 

[Reynard]

This is not an attitude, it's my personality.

It's what my character would do.

 

[prabe]

It's what my character would do.

At least I was quoting a song ...