What do you wish people understood about your area of expertise?

[Lorizael]

As someone who irregularly writes an incredibly boring science/philosophy blog and also now TAs an intro astronomy course, this is a question I've given some thought to. But let's hear from you all, because I don't currently have the attention span to elucidate those thoughts. Note that your "area of expertise" can be whatever you do for a living, whatever you went to school for, or whatever your weird obsession is. (I mean, I am not really an expert on either astronomy or philosophy, despite knowing more than the average schmuck.)

[Elok]

Uh, I don't have expertise, but as for the pharmacy: doctors' handwriting really is as terrible as they say, and many types of medicine have very similar names but wildly different effects. You're always just one hurried staff member's squint away from killing a major organ.

Also, those homeopathic drugs that are really just water? Those are actually the more benign type of homeopathy. The really bad ones are actually pharmacologically active in some way, but nobody's properly tested their effects or (more importantly) their interactions. Drugs interact in weird and often terrifying ways. Common garlic, for example, can potentially make birth control less effective.

[Aeson]

I wish people understood how applying back and forth motion to trees helps them to grow bigger. In doing so they become better carbon sinks and help avert global catastrophe. This is why it's so important for me to rock gently back and forth in a hammock strung between two trees ... so pay me for doing it already!

[Giancarlo]

Political science?

Yea... I think some have had enough of that this year lol.

[The Mad Monk]

Uh, I don't have expertise, but as for the pharmacy: doctors' handwriting really is as terrible as they say, and many types of medicine have very similar names but wildly different effects. You're always just one hurried staff member's squint away from killing a major organ.

Also, those homeopathic drugs that are really just water? Those are actually the more benign type of homeopathy. The really bad ones are actually pharmacologically active in some way, but nobody's properly tested their effects or (more importantly) their interactions. Drugs interact in weird and often terrifying ways. Common garlic, for example, can potentially make birth control less effective.

Babies are terrifying.

[Sava]

I wish people understood how applying back and forth motion to trees helps them to grow bigger. In doing so they become better carbon sinks and help avert global catastrophe. This is why it's so important for me to rock gently back and forth in a hammock strung between two trees ... so pay me for doing it already!

same principle applies in other plants

i encourage stem movement for the same reason

forces it to be stronger/bigger

for me, means bigger nutrient pipeline to flower sites

[Sava]

as for OP

uhm, maybe just the medical facts

besides that, i want people to know less

makes what i can do more valuable

[Ben Kenobi]

Parents, I have 30 other students and I'm having you come in not because your child is 15th out of 30th. I don't have time for that. I'm having you come in because your child is either my worst or next to worst student, is failing and will fail unless they get help now.

I'd rather they get the help they need now rather than fail at the end of the year and you having to pay to put them in summer school. *sigh*.

[The Mad Monk]

same principle applies in other plants

i encourage stem movement for the same reason

forces it to be stronger/bigger

for me, means bigger nutrient pipeline to flower sites

We keep a desk fan sweeping across the seedlings for our garden to strengthen them. That way they don't get all gangly and are less likely to die after the transplant.

[Aeson]

I think you guys are missing the important aspect of my post. You can't very well string a hammock between seedlings

[Lorizael]

Babies are terrifying.

can confirm

[Egbert]

I think you guys are missing the important aspect of my post. You can't very well string a hammock between seedlings

They don't understand the most important point of your area of expertise.

[Aeson]

I wish they did ...

[Sava]

I think you guys are missing the important aspect of my post. You can't very well string a hammock between seedlings

[The Mad Monk]

Sure you can.

A tiny hammock.

For crickets.