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[deleted] t1_iqx60yx wrote

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Reatona t1_iqxjli5 wrote

Outside of his areas of actual expertise, Linus Pauling was a giant box of Dunning Krueger effect.

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rukisama85 t1_iqyns18 wrote

This is actually very common among Nobel laureates especially. I think it's probably the ego inflation due to being a Nobel laureate. "I won a Nobel, I must have useful things to say on every subject!"

It's also common between different fields. For instance, though controversial, Egyptologists dismissing geologists saying "hey, some of this stone was weathered by lots of rain over a long period of time."

"Nah, some dude a hundred years ago said this was carved at this time, and we don't want to update our textbooks, so you must be wrong."

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BarrelRoll1996 t1_iqztf3s wrote

Jordan Peterson comes to mind, everytime he speaks outside of a specific branch of psychology

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Present_Creme_2282 t1_iqxxo8q wrote

Quasi crystals and how they relate to the foundation of everything is still a developing theory i thought? Much like string theory, is still a theory

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