| ▲ | sarreph 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
What the author is getting at here: > Climbing Mount Everest and getting a PhD are both hard. I wouldn’t say that doing one means you can do the other “no problem.” and here: > Surgeons and electrical engineers may be extremely smart and accomplished, but that doesn’t mean they have the ability to weigh in on climate science. Feels tangentially like a version of Nobel disease[0], discussed here[1] a couple of weeks ago. --- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Drupon an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lookin at you, Terry Tao | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rob74 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
I mean, in the meantime, the US president is weighing in on technical design decisions of aircraft carriers, and he has neither a PhD nor a Nobel Prize, so... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-aircra... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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