Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose

shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Treczoks@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He may be "well educated" in some definition of that term, but obviously not in any reality-relevant topic.

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  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, people think "smart" is a point on a linear scale from "stupid" to "educated". In Germany we say "Fachidioten" ("subject idiots") for people that are well versed in a subject, but idiots otherwise. You can study something, even be good in that and still talk bullshit. Heck, you might spout bullshit despite good education in the topic. Knowingly and unknowingly.

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• No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s how I read this too, esp in the context of his disparaging comments about post-covid-condition. This is the same kind of minimising, reduce-the-issue-to-the-rediculous comment as when your aunt looks at you condicendingly and says “I mean, have you tried cutting out avacado toast darling? Maybe that would help you get a house.”

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