the specific context of that tweet was calling people who cannot take the vaccine for medical reasons a dumbass if they are also a vocal anti-vax proponent
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As a simple example, when programming, should you listen to "experts" like Uncle Bob Martin? Bjarne Stroustrup? The average CS professor at a college?
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If your answer is "yes", then I guess I understand why you think what you think about medical experts. If your answer is "no", you have some explaining to do :)
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that's why I called it a shortcut, in the absence of doing your own rigorous research, you should just listen to expert consensus.
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A shortcut to the wrong answer is not useful.
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Often think of this (img). Hearing a lot of “why trust the establisment? “ and “What makes an expert consensus better than this single outlier?” And it’s like: this is the basis of human society. We trust the consensus of our experts. Otherwise it all falls apart fastpic.twitter.com/q9sWySb4Fy
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This image is offensive enough, and blatantly wrong enough, that I wish I had a non-programming YouTube channel so I could rant about it for the hour it deserves. And I say that _as_ an expert in a field.
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