But I digress, after decades of becoming autodidact in modern physics, Candace Owens can shit all over it with superstition and what she read about Jack Parsons on Wikipedia not noticing he died before he founded NASA as a Satanic cult calling me gay for being interested in space. Indeed, she has every right to rear her wall-eyed deformed brain head with non-science as alternative fact denying science such as DNA she can't deny in court nor genetics that diagnose her as severely inbred by visible syndrome. Aye, it is for anti-intellectual cretins to supplant the sapient therefore sapience in our nomenclature is utterly unfathomable hubris.
Hell, all the time I spent studying before the WWW existed is for naught because of cognitive bias that makes incompetent people behave as experts, especially prevalent on the Internet, the Dunning-Kruger effect. The tendency for people with low ability in a specific area to overestimate their competence. This is because they lack the metacognitive skills (the ability to recognize their own lack of knowledge) needed to accurately assess their own performance. The Internet, with its vast amount of information (and misinformation) can exacerbate this effect. Leading individuals to believe they have mastered a topic after only a brief online search.
In the end I know enough to know I don't know everything and the more I know the less I understand because all answers do is raise more questions. It is the incompetent certitude of people like Candace Owens to not question her knowledge about topics such as science she lacks expertise in to judge it that are the hallmark of what the lowest common denominator in humanity considers to be competence. Which is confidence even if it's being confident in knowledge you do not possess.
Where Candace is lacking in her science knowledge she's lacking in my theology, I've studied every 'ology'. Which is why grifters like her get mansplained. It is the grifters that propagate the misinformation which convolutes topics with horseshit that impedes the attainment of knowledge. Therefore many online 'experts' are the opposition to expertise and champions of ignorance to profit from the ignorant. If I ever ask for a single penny shoot me and/or subsequently behead me, cheers.
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