Just a few points if I might...
Yes. They are working in an environment of knowledge, experience and training that is completely absent from lay fora.
Scientists are not constantly assaulted with couterfactual material from lay, arm chair folks with no training in the subject area and no experience with being evidence-based but yet expound endlessly and ignorantly. Scientists are not constantly having to put out the fires of ignorance practically every damn post from certain quarters. Scientists surround themselves with other scientists with approriate training and a track record of rational thought.
All that is largely missing in a lay forum to one degree or another.
Is that the main reason?
So you would recommend the armchair biochemistry posts to new confused parents looking for factual material who haven't concluded that their kids wouldn't benefit from that material?
Originally posted by hdugger
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Scientists are not constantly assaulted with couterfactual material from lay, arm chair folks with no training in the subject area and no experience with being evidence-based but yet expound endlessly and ignorantly. Scientists are not constantly having to put out the fires of ignorance practically every damn post from certain quarters. Scientists surround themselves with other scientists with approriate training and a track record of rational thought.
All that is largely missing in a lay forum to one degree or another.
As to why I follow certain lines of research and not others - it's some barely conscious set of instincts, propensities, and observations.
So you would recommend the armchair biochemistry posts to new confused parents looking for factual material who haven't concluded that their kids wouldn't benefit from that material?
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