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by NegatioN 2275 days ago
I'm not asking, because I don't trust that this is the best information we have. I am asking, because I want to understand more about how certain the people who understand the subject are about this recommendation.

I thought we (as a computer science-centric population) valued learning over credentials?

I didn't mean to come off as agressively taking a stance, which is /why/ I wrote that I don't know anything about this topic.

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They carefully caveated their results, and we all know this isn't peer-reviewed or replicated--although it has been informally reviewed by other scientists.

But it is also very safe to say that serious scientists don't put forth studies that someone completely uncredentialled can poke a hole in with two minutes of thought.