No one is stopping you from expressing your views and opinions over something. But if your views are contracting with what you do, maybe you should think before saying it again.
Like its one thing if any random person says they don’t believe in time but it would get conversational if it was coming out from clockmaker.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of professionals who are sharing conversational opinions. Reddit user u/MoniMokshith made a post on r/facepalm, saying “I had to teach a historical geology class because the geologist who was supposed to teach [it] was a Young Earth Creationist.”
Scroll down to read some of these professionals’ views who made their career out of things they don’t believe in.
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I’m an RN and worked with FAR too many people in the healthcare field as a whole (not just other nurses, but also lab workers, RT’s, pharmacists, hell even some MD’s) who think/thought COVID was a hoax or “greatly exaggerated” and are now refusing the new vaccine, even though we all KNOW how mRNA and vaccines work. Plenty of anti-maskers too. It’s like they just used their degrees as tissue paper or something, I seriously don’t get how you can learn what we learn, understand it well enough to practice in the field, and yet still allow political stances to override all that, it’s freaking ridiculous.
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My high school biology teacher was a super religious creationist. He taught us about evolution while telling us how he thought it was all bulls**t. I always wondered why people go into professions that are directly opposed to their beliefs. Seems like a miserable existence.
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I’m an ICU nurse of about 10 years. I would occasionally float to our regular, non-ICU, and non-covid floors. Plenty of nurses denied how serious covid was.
The cognitive dissonance is real. Of course, none of them came up to help on our covid units
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I’ve worked with an aerospace/aeronautical engineer once that believed the earth was flat. It was so weird because, in order for the calculations to function properly, you have to take into account the earth not being flat.
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Used to be a science teacher and I always got flack on the evolution chapter from parents that were doctors. Like babe I hope you at least believe in bacteria and viruses evolving…
I’ve also come across many nurses who don’t think mental illness is real.
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Degree is Psychology here. So many peers with devout faith, one brain dead moron took psychology as a way “to know god better” he told me and convert more to Jesus.
Once took a course literally called, “Belief in Weird Things” which was for Psych majors. 300 students enrolled, nearly half dropped out because they were offended at some point when we broke down their weird beliefs.
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Professional cook here. Near the beginning of the pandemic I heard about a Sous Chef I worked with in the past being an anti-masker. I asked through the grapevine why he washes his hands before and after handling food and the reply was “that’s common sense”. But somehow the scientific medical community saying that masks help prevent illnesses is just a big hoax. It’s beyond frustrating.
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I worked with a former airline PILOT who was/is a flat earther. He has since gone back to being a pilot but I am not sure if he still thinks Earth is flat. When I pressed him on being a former pilot and believing malarkey he claimed the school’s indoctrination into round earth didn’t work on him and that the pilot’s windscreen was a very thick and curved glass that made everything appear to be curved.
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I remember a few Evangelists and one Catholic ( odd since most Catholics I know aren’t creationists) in my major (geography) saying they knew the truth about the age of the earth, but had to lie on tests (classes like oil&gas, hydrology, geology,etc.) in order to get good grades.
How Christian are you when you break one of the 10 commandments and lie about your faith in order to get ahead?
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My mom’s really into homeopathy bulls**t (treating illnesses with the souls of elements or whatever). She’s a pharmacist.
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My friend’s uncle is a ‘5G gives you cancer while the government controls your mind’ conspiracy theorist. He’s a 5G installer
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The last career I had, knew people who were flat earthers and moon landing deniers…we were all satellite communications engineers.
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I work with a medication aide that refuses to take medication and actively preaches god>medication. Apparently, god isn’t paying her bills so she still keeps coming to work.
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I know a dude who works in the oil field who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs. “Fossil fuels”
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I know someone who doesn’t believe in germ theory. We work for a company that builds water sterilization.
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I worked with a wildland firefighter who was a climate change denier. We fought more wildfires. We got way more OT over 3 years. Yet didn’t believe it was true science and started to complain he couldn’t enjoy his summers due to work….lol
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I work with two anti-vaxxers. They are nurses who work with elderly patients.
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I used to work with a geologist who used to think minerals (“crystals”) could heal you even from cancer.
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I work in defense. No one there believes government creates jobs. We only get paid by government.
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I’m an aircraft mechanic and I work with a guy who believes in chemtrails.
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I’m an aircraft mechanic and I work with a guy who believes in chemtrails.
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One of my teachers (it wasn’t a biology teacher) made me do a homework to prove that dinosaurs aren’t mammals as, for him, mammals are animals with lungs.
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I worked with someone who had a Ph.D. in genetics but was a young-earth creationist. She couldn’t seem to comprehend phylogenetic diagrams, useless as a supervisor to Ph.D. students, seeing as she was incapable of discussing a number of highly relevant topics.
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My mom is a geologist and she worked with someone who was a young-earth creationist. That person’s excuse was “god created rocks that were 4.6 billion years old”. I guess if it works it works, but that makes no sense to me
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I worked with a guy whose previous job had been designing missile launch systems who also thought the earth was flat, I’m not entirely sure how he slept at night
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My 4th-grade science teacher and my 9th-grade history teacher are moon landing deniers…
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I had to teach a historical geology class because the geologist who was supposed to teach is was a Young Earth Creationist.
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I’ve met a PhD in Chemistry from a top 5 university that was anti-vax. Their PhD work actually involved the analysis of heavy metals in an environment and how it impacted a childs likelihood to develop autism. I got into it with them, and they were able to reference a handful of scholarly papers to justify their stance.
