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When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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.’
- Isaac Asimov
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This is only slightly less dumb than the people that think solar panels take sunlight away from plants.
Shit man I am a top ten expert in an extremely niche area with my work cited thousands of times and I still feel like I don’t know shit and will be in a state of constantly falling behind until I die.
When I was in high school we got to go on a field trip to a wind farm. They had one stopped on a kinda windy day so they could show us it starting up. Watching the blades rotate on their axis, then seeing this massive turbine slowly start to spin, was so fucking cool.
Dunning Kruger curve in action
Yes, but not in the way you think it is.
