Wow I haven’t read SMBC in years. That strip is so messed up and so damn funny.
I’ve known a few MENSA members who were living proof that having a high IQ is no indication of having common sense.
Ok, shadenfreude alert. Saw a story on old coal miners suffering from health conditions like black lung. OSHA got gutted, and one program cut was the health care they were providing to these old guys. Heath care workers fired.
It’s limited, because once this came out that program was reinstated, but the leopards still chewed their faces a bit.
So, how do you like being classified as “fraud, waste, and abuse”?
Geez – Now I really regret writing books and articles about mythology, variable stars, pop culture, and amusement parks. I’m telling people in other fields about their fields, so I must be well along into my dotage.
Don’t put me down. Just let me gambol on the fields of knowledge upstate.
Sorry about that. No offense intended (I have a degree in Applied Physics myself)
Is your name Bob, cause I can spell any name I hear backwards.
See Ben Carson.
I’m pretty sure these were included in my wedding vows.
Now now now, I think the critique is directed at those physicists who get dogmatic about entire mainstream hypotheses of other fields being wrong (without having any broad expertise in the field), just based on their own idiosyncratic application of physics principles.
In short, the problem isn’t that physicists are learning and writing about technical arcana in other fields of research. The problem is that some (often elderly) physicists are asserting that they don’t even need to learn the technical arcana of other fields of research, because their existing physics knowledge functions as a sort of secret decoder ring to reveal to them what’s true and what’s false about those other fields. Needless to say, these assertions tend not to hold up under informed scrutiny.
Perfect example. 
Are you arguing with scientists in other fields that you haven’t studied about their fields? Or are you passing along knowledge accepted in those fields to a broader audience?
There’s a difference between talking about gravity and arguing Einstein was wrong. Same principle applies here.
How 'bout Emily?
Should have been “I can speak any name I hear backwards” But you got the reference. I could go on and on about that show, but will end my side track now.
Sometimes somewhere between the two. In Medusa I wrote about interpretations of classical mythology, which I had no formal training in. Also about psychology and forensic medicine (really).
Of course, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone with formal training in all those areas.
A restaurant in Tennessee owned by Kid Rock had to shut down because so many undocumented employees failed to show up for work because of ICE raids in Nashville.
Pick up that spatula and mop and get to work, Kid!
From the linked article:
the “manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home” around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday evening
Shouldn’t they arrest the manager for obstruction or whatever? Isn’t that exactly the sort of case they trumped up (pardon the pun) against a judge in Wisconsin?
That would fall under supposed to. We already know how much respect the felon has for the law and the courts.
Even Asimov managed some major blunders. He admitted a number of them in his autobiographies. What shocked me was a blunder he didn’t realize he was making and that his editor and publisher didn’t prevent: he published his social security number in one.
You just had to let the cat out of the bag, didn’t you. 
Isn’t that why we’re all here?