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People that find professors and similar in high esteem usually haven't spent enough time in or around academia and academics and for that reason still maintain some innocent aura of mystique and prestige around it in their mind.

Quite literally anyone with a bit of persistence could become a professor (and this by far isn't even a top university either).

They are quite literally just a somebody with an opinion just like anybody else. An opinion barked down to you with 300% scaled fonts and preschooler illustrations.




I have been around a lot of academics and been in academia.

While we shouldn't trust academics just because they are academics, these people specialize in relevant fields and also back their claims with citations throughout the course. They are not just postulating.




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