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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/well/microplastics-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.55rS.ptjX9oakA5lw

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Meanwhile me, a system administrator with the New Testament on top of a rack: Let’s go

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I worked with a senior programmer who was a staunch Creationist - or as he always put it, "not an Evolutionist" - who seriously believed the world was created like 6000 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know a guy with two PhD's, who works in a genetics lab, and is entirely convinced that Neanderthals (and all other pre-homo sapien humanoids) are a hoax by evolutionists to lead true believers astray.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How is that possible?? And why would anyone do two phds? I thought that was just a hollywood trope.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How is that possible??

Massive doublethink? I haven't talked with him much, and don't want to contact specifically to ask, but the post just made me think back.

And why would anyone do two phds? I thought that was just a hollywood trope.

I've got the one, and I often wonder why the hell I ever did it.

I do know 1 other person with a double PhD, but he figured "Nah, now that written half a dozen paper, I suddenlt realize economics sucks, I'm gonna do maths instead!" and got a 2nd degree in his late 50s. Personally, I would rather get keelhauled than go for another phd, but to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed! I'm finishing my one-and-only phd at the moment (hopefully) and feel completely done with academics.