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1. phoghed · 1790944096 · focus · HN ↗

   A very high number of Redditors think they know more/better than a Harvard professor and dismiss him out of hand. May someone grant us all a measure of their confidence.

   1. oefrha · 1790946299 · focus · HN ↗

      As a former hep-th guy from a very reputable institution I was ready to at least skim and briefly evaluate 36 particle physics papers. Turns out most of them have nothing to do with physics. It takes a special kind of personality to have the hubris to publish in so many domains at once, and most Harvard/Princeton/etc. physicists I know would probably be critical of this. Not that the disapproval would mean much.

      (I did learn much of my QFT from Schwartz’s QFT textbook though, so I hold him in higher regard than <insert random Harvard Physics prof here>.)

      1. obastani · 1790955812 · focus · HN ↗

         At the very least, many of the papers in other domains are co-authored with experts in that domain.

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