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That'd be a very interesting statement if you were qualified to make it


What makes one qualified to make a statement?

Are you qualified to make the statement I'm replying to?


In technical fields: Accredited formal education, professional certification(s), and/or recognition from other experts in the field who have the same.


How do I know you're qualified to make that statement?


If I'm not, then we're not grounded in the same consensus-driven objective reality, making this conversation meaningless, and therefore not worth your time to reply further.


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I care enough that I would trust assessment of their health and condition only to qualified professionals with access to the relevant information, just like anyone else that I care about


Do the people who have control of the information have an incentive to lie?


Do people on the Internet have an incentive to baselessly speculate in order to indulge their own Dunning-Krugerized delusions of grandeur?




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