1. Don’t believe what someone says based on their qualifications. Believe them only based on the evidence they provide in support of their claims. Remember, there is no such thing as scientific authority.
2. There are only scientific experts. And experts can always be wrong. Which is why the good ones will always back up their claims with evidence. To emphasize my point that you shouldn’t look at someone’s qualifications as a reason for believing them, I bring you…
3. The Nobel disease - an affliction that seems to affect many Nobel Prize Winners, where they go on to promote many scientifically unsound ideas, usually later in life. And we all know the Nobel Prize is awarded to people who are probably the most accomplished in their fields.
4. Famous examples of this include -
Marie Curie (Physics, 1903 and Chemistry, 1911) -
Famously supported the psychic medium Eusapia Palladino
5. Luc Montagnier (Medicine, 2008) —
Known for endorsing homeopathy, water memory, autism quackery, AIDS cured by nutrition and vaccine hysteria
6. Richard Smalley (Chemistry, 1996) —
Known for Creationism, Intelligent Design and evolution denial
6. There are many more examples of the Nobel disease. And this is a great example to show you that qualifications and accomplishments don't support the claims you make. Only evidence does.
7. But I wanted to bring to light a similar person from India. Not a Nobel laureate. But a Padma Vibhushan winner. And an extremely well qualified Cardiologist. But now, he’s one of the biggest quacks in India. Name him in the comments :P
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Thread: How Steve Jobs died because of alternative medicine. 1. Steve Jobs is perhaps one of the giants of human history who single handedly changed the course of civilization with innovations in smartphones and computing.
2. But for such a towering figure in the landscape of science, he also endorsed a lot of pseudoscience. He supported a lot of Eastern spirituality, which is riddled with pseudoscience. He also used to be a big believer in Complementary and Alternative Medicine and lifestyle ideas
3. In 2003, he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer called gasteroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (GEP-NET), which isn’t the usual rapidly fatal form of pancreatic cancer we encounter.
1. Thread about Juhi Chawla and the 5g controversy: Why do people tend to be afraid of 5g? The word radiation gets a bad rap mainly because of its association with nuclear bombs and the radiation aftermath. I’ll talk about this nuclear radiation later.
2. The word radiation comes from the fact that these photons/particles move outward along the radius of a sphere around the source aka radiate
3. Three prominent kinds of radiation out there - alpha radiation, beta radiation and electromagnetic radiation. The first two, I’ll talk about later. The last one is what we’re all concerned about. 5G radiation is a kind of electromagnetic radiation