Wednesday, June 7, 2017
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Actual scientists don't have this problem, because they are not stupid. Normal people don't have this problem either, because they don't waste time reading what amount to very specialized trade publications (that's why they're called "journals"). It is only Randall Munroe and the rest of the /r/science subscribers who are smart enough to feel like maybe they really should be reading the primary scientific literature, not smart enough to comprehend it, but still conceited enough to preen about how precocious they are for looking up the National Academy of Sciences on Wikipedia.
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2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job
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2651 It's hard to be as smart as Randall, because you become aware of so many conflicting threats and demands you have to keep in bala...
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