What the author is getting at here:

> Climbing Mount Everest and getting a PhD are both hard. I wouldn’t say that doing one means you can do the other “no problem.”

and here:

> Surgeons and electrical engineers may be extremely smart and accomplished, but that doesn’t mean they have the ability to weigh in on climate science.

Feels tangentially like a version of Nobel disease[0], discussed here[1] a couple of weeks ago.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166918