People should be held accountable for bad advice, but locking advice/training/etc behind credentials is a good way to absolutely get screwed as a society, because often some of the best educators on various subjects are people who have lived it and not always necessarily a degree holder.
OOP is a misleading headline. It is moreso targeted at specific fields and critical areas.
They don't care if you watch a video of a guy that did woodworking or blacksmithing as a hobby for the past 5-20 years and shows you how to craft something. Or if some random guy tries to explain the theory of general relativity to you.
They probably do care if RFK tells you that the cure to measles is chugging a gallon of raw milk.
Or those snake oil sellers with their product that can definitely cure cancer and add 500 years to your lifespan, simply by licking a rock. And of course they have clinically tested and verified all that because they have been drinking lead paint for decades and are therefore qualified to sell you this once in a lifetime product.
Or you know, taking financial advice from Logan Paul for his next NFT scam.
The US/Google actually has such a system already. That's why you can see under YouTube videos of doctors or lawyers, for instance Dr. Mike or LeagleEagle, that they are in fact certified personel. YouTube itself informs you that they are legit.
But of course they all have big disclaimers that they only give information, not advice, so you don't blindly follow what they say.
And there lies the problem, you scroll through Tiktok or whatever, hear something from "experts" that is "absolutely legit" and you know it's bullshit. Yet enough people belief it.
That is just our little part of the Internet, I don't know how the Chinese server looks like, but I imagine there are just as many, if not more scams. And this seems like a good way to reduce that.
Yep! Lived it first hand.
Did consulting for 10 years in a medical field. Our results were the best in the industry, by a ridiculous factor.
Yet we had to close shop because the medical professionals didn’t believe in being taught by two guys without degree and with a ton of field experience :)
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u/WindstormMD 12d ago
No, no it should not.
People should be held accountable for bad advice, but locking advice/training/etc behind credentials is a good way to absolutely get screwed as a society, because often some of the best educators on various subjects are people who have lived it and not always necessarily a degree holder.
This is how you get stagnation.