Obviously almost everyone who claims this on the internet is full of it. Full of themselves and full of shit.
That said, with time, patience, study and luck you can contribute meaningfully to an expert understanding of the world! A year or two back it was an amateur enthusiast who discovered that some markings near cave paintings of animals may correlate with reproductive cycles for those animals - an interpretation that gathered some expert support.
Someone once solved a 25 year old math problem and posted the proof on 4chan.
Wasn’t the formula to calculate turbulence from a russian math genius who lives somewhere in the woods, appeared with the solution and disappeared again?
I think you may be conflating something with the story of Perelman, who solved the Poincare conjecture (with its 1 million dollar prize), rejected the prize and basically told the math world to stuff it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
There’s a lot of over hyping about ‘writing’ but here’s the first article I found with a reasonable sounding headline: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-64161861
If you search for ‘cave painting animal reproductive cycle’ you’ll find a lot of major outlets reporting on it, which should include the names of the paper’s authors if you want to dig deeper.
I just did some research on some supplements that might help with a medical condition my wife suffers from. There is a brand that has a suspiciously high rating on Amazon and has an F score on fake spot. I found some scientific studies about using the plant extract for her condition, but they look at if they have been written by the supplement industry as does the Wikipedia every for the extract. There are verified doctors on YouTube that talk about it, and say that it can help, but to be weary of supplements and the claims companies make. It’s still possible that they will help, but there’s no way to know until she tries it. Unfortunately, the most trustworthy source is the one with a bunch of reviews that people probably got a discount or free product to write. There’s a bunch of other brands, but those look even sketchier. I also found a few sellers on eBay who will send the powdered extract from India labeled from a company with a website that doesn’t load. Lastly, I could obtain a few of the plants and dry the leaves myself. I’m not sure exactly how many leaves I would need for one dose though.
So yeah, I did my own research, suck my dick if you have a problem with it.
I mean calling that research is a bit of an exaggeration, right? Or else anyone using search engines for anything would be doing „research“. People trying to make their everyday activities sound like the most advanced work ever is as hilarious as it is sad.
thanks to Russia
I thought it was China that ruined the internet. Or maybe it was North Korea? Idk, the point is that it was definitely an evil foreign government who ruined America’s premier information sharing network.
Not a profit-hungry former Yahoo executive who failed upward into the world’s most successful internet company or the founder who made a multi-billion dollar bad bet on VR or the guy who bought Twitter and proceeded to wage a War on Woke.
Right, but people don’t actually say that, do they? It’s more like
“Honey, I found some information that the world’s top scientists and doctors are being paid to hide”
Or:
“Honey, I found some information that the world’s top scientists and doctors are ignoring/minimizing due to biases”.
Well… Yes. This is what researchers do. It’s part of science. Now you take the new data, form a falsifiable hypothesis, and do empirical experiments. Publish your research. The cycle is complete
Yeah. All that jazz too… But it’s right here on Facebook. Isn’t that evidence enough?
The cycle is complete
The cycle is NEVER complete. It’s ongoing until someone else proves you were wrong and they were a bit more correct.
The comic is mostly referring to physics crackpots. People outside academia who rejects current established physics in favor of their own pet theories.
Like how I reject quantum superposition in favor of my pet theory that it’s really only in one state and the superposition is just a convenient way to refer to the chances of each when you can’t observe it because your observation tools will interfere with it?
Y’all laugh, but I know how secretly good for me drinking lead-sweetened borax water is!
This is my hope, that these “researchers” will eventually take themselves out of the gene pool when they finally find some website claiming that drinking bleach will kill any cancer but “the globalists” have managed to hide that information from the masses.
I have a good friend whose wife drinks borax water every day. They spent just about everything they had on in vitro and lost the baby. I love them to death, and I’d never, ever suggest to them that something they did is why they lost the baby, but sometimes I genuinely wonder if it’s because she drinks borax. To clarify, I did tell them not to drink borax when they started, I’m just saying I wouldn’t specifically point out losing the baby with the borax connection.
I get the inclination to not trust things at face value, to do your own research, et cetera. Especially in the US, we’re bombarded with new meds we’re supposed to “ask our doctor about,” but there’s a pretty thick, fucking mile wide line between researching the meds you take and listening to Becky on tiktok and deciding to drink a literal poison that even the victorians knew probably wasn’t the best for you by the end of their run.
Honey! It turns out viruses bigger than 5-10 microns CAN be airborne! Lots of bigger viruses are airborne! Some engineer told me! Yes, I know he’s not a doctor and the CDC says otherwise.
The guy who came up with that number was doing secret bioweapon research on weaponizing TB! Yes, I know it’s not very secret if the results ended up in every textbook in the last 70 years.
But the Chinese are using air filters to fight it!
-Like 10 people in 2020 when everyone was washing groceries and not wearing masks.
You can also get Casandra Syndrome if you apply some critical thought to the news.