[ SECRET POST #2820 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2820 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

She's.... not actually a neuroscientist, you realize that, right guys? She got her PhD in neuroscience back in 2007 and left the field completely. She has literally no other publications in her field aside from her dissertation. She may have been an aspiring neuroscientist, at one point, but she's not one now - she's an actress who was educated in neuroscience and has been out of the discipline for the better part of a decade. Her education is brought up again and again because it plays into what she does during her actual career (as an actress) so well.

And because it came up last time: neuroscience isn't immunology. Vaccines = immunology. It's possible she has no background in immunology whatsoever, hence the blind ignorance about vaccination (though her political beliefs are just as appalling).

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but... you don't really need a background in immunology to understand the importance of vaccination, do you? Most ordinary people are capable of doing enough independent research on the subject to get the idea, at least if they're willing to. And since her entire stance revolves around parents doing research before making any decisions...

[ariakas]

Maybe not, but it sure helps. For example, despite having been ostensibly educated in the sciences, many engineers and physicists are shockingly ignorant about biology, to the point where they're by far the most likely of any STEM professional to say they don't "believe in evolution". Creationists trump them up as proof that you can be educated "in the sciences" and still reject natural selection, but reality is the only reason they're saying that is that they don't know jack shit about nature. Which is why they can't find biologists for ID and have to scramble for engineers and other completely unrelated STEM types in the first place.

And in my school, for example, neuroscience doesn't draw from biology or microbiology/biochemistry majors for the most part, it draws from psychology majors, who like the engineers above, don't know jack shit about hard science outside of their tiny specialty and are prone to all kinds of anti-vax, anti-GMO, "toxin" voodoo in a way you never find in someone who did immunology, biochemistry, or genetics.

What I'm saying is that yes, it's completely appalling, but I'd be more surprised if it was someone who was in a related discipline, by far.

[(Anonymous)]

She may not be a practicing neuroscientist but I'm kind of not sure I agree with the idea that she's on the same level as the average educated layperson because she got her PhD seven years ago and hasn't been doing research in the field. She has extensive training in and knowledge of neuroscience. I mean, she got a fucking PhD, that's not nothing.

I do agree with your point about vaccination, but come on here, she absolutely has more standing to comment on neuroscience than the average person. Whether you want to say she is or is not a neuroscience is definitional, but, like, come on.

[ariakas]

Where in my post did I say that "she's on the same level as the average educated layperson"?