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scientific 'woo' and similar

I don't mean to suggest that non-academics are unable to create new knowledge, that would be an ahistorical and privileged viewpoint. Rather, I think there are two groups of people:

  1. People outside academia who try to appear to use academic-like jargon, but make near-zero effort to engage with the substance of that field of study.
  2. People outside academia who actually try to engage (at least somewhat) with the substance of that field of study.

Also, group #1 is MUCH bigger than group #2.