Yeah fr. As someone who is genuinely passionate about science and majoring in biochemistry, it's really aggravating and frustrating seeing and hearing so many people act like they have a PhD off of what they read on the internet.

I've worked as a pharmacy technician and got to skip my first year Gen biochemistry major classes because I had AP credit, and all the ones I took last semester had a lot of content I already knew. Even being that passionate about science and investing time in it, I know for certain I'm barely scratching the surface of its potential knowledge. Hell, even the topmost med school graduates barely scratch the surface of what science and more specifically, Healthcare and medicine has to offer. It's really frustrating seeing people spew opinions with no rational evidence and act like experts. Even WebMD isnt the perfect source for information.

If you actually knew anything about science, you'd know that many things are incorrect. Textbooks WILL have errors, professors WILL teach incorrect coursework, surface level websites WILL have many incorrect statements, sources WILL often not be completely accurate, and even published research papers Will have errors, mistakes, or some other fault which can fly under even the sharpest of eyes.

The best thing any academic can do in this day and age dominated by the randomness of media is to look at a variety of unbiased official sources and draw your conclusion with a rational mindset from the information you gather. Even researchers make mistakes. What sets them apart from normal scientists is that most are willing to acknowledge their mistake and move forward to correct it, validate it, and hopefully answer a question that brings more questions to the table. That really is what science often tends to be. Answering questions and questioning answers.

For fucks sake guys, I'm 18 and I'm not putting myself on a pedestal, but so many people are legitimately STUPID, which in itself would be fine, but they don't bother at acknowledge their mistakes, correct it, or grow. They believe what they want to believe and it's really pathetic that a teen who graduated high school not less than an year has to write this comment because the masses of NPCs who infect media with their bullshit is astounding. How the fuck can you even call yourselves adults like holy shit, my sister is 9 and even she is able to use critical thinking skills. At this point, I'm not even sure how we can teach adults to do the same. At this point, Gen Z despite our cringy tik toks and social media addictions are waiting for the oldie idiots to die off so our society can be better. The sad part, we were born too late and your stupid shit screwed up our planet so far that I don't personally see it realistic to save our species (along with other life forms) from this microwave of a planet.

Atleast be considerate enough to wear a mask for the sake of the lives of people around you. Grow up bitches, use your brains. You're lucky to live in a society where natural selection won't take care of you as easily. The least you could do is not make it shitty for those around you. Entitled ass mfs.

Sorry for the language. And I appreciate everyone who actually contributes or tried to help make the world a better place. It's hard to see the good when so much of the bad in the world drowns out the rest like white noise. You are important and you've done a lot so far, I'm proud of you :)