Reatona t1_iqxjli5 wrote on October 3, 2022 at 8:41 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

Outside of his areas of actual expertise, Linus Pauling was a giant box of Dunning Krueger effect.

rukisama85 t1_iqyns18 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 1:36 AM

This is actually very common among Nobel laureates especially. I think it's probably the ego inflation due to being a Nobel laureate. "I won a Nobel, I must have useful things to say on every subject!"

It's also common between different fields. For instance, though controversial, Egyptologists dismissing geologists saying "hey, some of this stone was weathered by lots of rain over a long period of time."

"Nah, some dude a hundred years ago said this was carved at this time, and we don't want to update our textbooks, so you must be wrong."

BarrelRoll1996 t1_iqztf3s wrote on October 4, 2022 at 9:06 AM

Jordan Peterson comes to mind, everytime he speaks outside of a specific branch of psychology