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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Fake, there is no way anyone would be that stupid and openly prejudiced . . .

hmm, lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago

I’m sorry but I have a neuroscience degree and I think this is a fart sniffing post. The broader point is real though

[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

I'll take things that never happened for 500 Alex

This reads like a shower argument I have when alone

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Joe Rogan is a caveman, but I hate this mentality.

I've had a ton of horrible experiences with doctors. Misdiagnosis, given bad medication, bad medical advice, etc. A common trait all of them had extreme arrogance. They all thought they had all the answers, and that modern medicine was infallible.

If you had an issue they couldn't put a clear label on fairly quick or weren't responding to treatment in a textbook way, then that was somehow your fault. Either you were lying, or exaggerating, or it was all just in your head.

I'm not alone in this experience. Basically every American with any sort of complex health issues has had a bad experience at the hands of someone who claims to be an expert. That's on top of the medical establishment letting bad medicine go on for years, because they are extremely reluctant to admit they don't have all the answers.

Obviously, none of that makes Joe Rogan any sort of intellectual or trusted authority on anything except bro science. How you can't expect people to have unflinching trust in doctors when doctors let people down so often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Amen friend, I lost my mother this year because of a group of doctors that didn't want to even consider the fact they might not know what they're talking about.

She had pneumonia for 4 months. It wouldn't go away because these doctors would treat her for 3 days. Then sent her on her way, convinced they cured her when they didn't. She would be back in the hospital less than a week later. The stress of it all eventually made her go into cardiac arrest multiple times. On her certificate, it lists the pneumonia and the heart as cause of death.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think on this particular example, the focus was less on the medical doctor aspect and more on the PhD. The woman has achieved the pinnacle of institutional knowledge in her field by fostering her intellect while dog breath across the table talks down to her about muscly podcast man who told everyone to take horse dewormer for COVID.

I agree using "doctor" as an indicator of intellect can fall short, I think that is tangential to the point her husband was making. Also, good husband stepping up to bat when the coworker starts mansplaining to his wife...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Joe rogan is pure shit, but the pinnacle on knowledge in one specific field does not mean the pinnacle knowledge in everything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

That's not what I said. What I mean to suggest is that if anyone has "fostered their intellect" it is someone who has achieved a PhD over someone who listens to Joe Rogan. I think even PhD hater could agree with that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Doctors sadly are drilled to produce results in an industrial manner. Strange edge cases are relegated to research, but if a doctor has to work off many patients, a patient who needs thought or patience is just irritating.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Um... if you look at the post again, you will find that the doctor in question is a PhD, admittedly in neuroscience, which does produce results used by medical doctors. But there is no indication the woman in question has ever, or will ever, practise medicine in a clinical setting. For that matter, there is only the inference from the mention of a US podcast that she is even American, mmm?

But, then, I infer from your userrname that you are male, and from your post that you are American. So I am not, at this point in history, terribly surprised if you have jumped to a wrong conclusion about the actual content of a woman's doctorate.

Signed, another woman with a doctorate that has nothing whatsoever to do with practising medicine in the USA, although you'd never know it from the number of Americans who immediately tell me their symptoms upon introduction. (Ah, yes! I think Napoleon died of something similar on Ste. Helena. Or possibly he was poisoned. But then French history is not my field, either.)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I gave up on getting tested for ADHD. They would not even run the tests! I don't really care if I have it, I just want to be sure, so I know what to do about whatever is wrong with me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

I'm sorry to hear that! My PCP referred me to testing based on a very short conversation and ultimately just because I wanted to be tested and know. I hope you can find a better doctor!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (12 children)

While hilarious...that's what's breeding the rise of the shit show of anti-science. We can't just call morons morons anymore. They go back to truth social, find all the other morons and pretend like they know better.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Try being a woman and talking to a mechanic or anybody working at an auto parts store.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or try being a woman working at an autoparts store

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pride of Ignorance. Its something we should bully out of people. Nobody should be so proud to be so dumb. Its fine to be dumb, but nobody should revel in it.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Joe Rogan, Shapiro, and j Peterson is what you called pseudo-intellectuals

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The problem with this world is that a lot of people enjoy EVERYTHING on a surface level.

I keep getting reminded of my "gamer" years when I played league of legends. When I started, I was clueless and bad. And I found a YouTube channel which made fun educational videos.

Initially I learned a lot but over time, I realized how bad the advice was at times, which changed my consumption of the content. At the end, the content didn't teach me anything and the suggestions of the creator seemed to be focused on messing with bad players and not actually playing good.

I started to watch better players and learned more from them.

To me, fans of these guys stopped at the first step. They want educational content but they don't actually want to learn and so don't actually think about the content and can't outgrow it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I schooled another man about my wife's competence. A doctor's a doctor! - title of this as a moderately upvoted repost on reddit with mostly positive, supportive comments

Thank you to all the good men who defend their wives like DH did for me! We love you! - title of a less upvoted and commented on reddit repost the next day

OP: My husband's nazi coworker was blatantly sexist to me at a company dinner - "where do you live dumb cunt imma swat your house," "men are people too, not everything is nazis, feminist bitch" brigade, "why are you dividing the movement for equality" Civilized Discussion and Debate, redditcares messages in her inbox

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

There is nothing admirable about letting a fascist rant about hate and nonsense, while the ape of a host goes “never thought of it that way, interesting” while legitimizing the nonsense

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

One of the wisest things I've ever heard is "White people should be lucky that black people only want equality, revenge would be perfectly understandable at this point."

The more I learn about black history, as in the history of what white people have been doing to black people since the latter was dragged kicking and screaming to America, the more I appreciate the phrase. It's honestly some of the most horrific shit I've ever had the displeasure of learning.

And just to clarify. I'm not black, I'm a pale transchick from the 90's who's whiter than sour cream, I've seen Wayne's World 69,420 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

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