My problem with your post is not that you're not a radiologist (that was just an example—and maybe I should've just written "person who has experience doing empirical studies of body scans"). It's that you use your status as "an actual MD" but that is clearly not enough and a real "appeal to authority" or "appeal to anecdotes." And then you combined that with some awful things that you compared OP to.
Looking through your post history you often jump to "appeal to authority" combined with name calling and it's a pattern that reeks of arrogance to me.
For example one of your posts starts out along the lines of, I'm not a 747 pilot, but I am a pilot... in a post about something specific to the 747 and you say the other guy was "talking out their ass." Again, not super relevant appeal to authority and some mean-spirited name calling.
> Not a 747 pilot (not sure why that matters here)... but a pilot. The flight positions are equal. The plane is designed to be flown the same from either flight position and this is routinely done. The guy saying otherwise is talking out their ass.
You just seem to love to tell everyone you're super special and smarter than them because of your accomplishments as a means of arguing and then put them down. It gives you instant validity to some of course, but I think it's just lazy. Your arguments should stand on their own merit. Not request to authority or anecdotes from your kind-of-related experience.
Looking through your post history you often jump to "appeal to authority" combined with name calling and it's a pattern that reeks of arrogance to me.
For example one of your posts starts out along the lines of, I'm not a 747 pilot, but I am a pilot... in a post about something specific to the 747 and you say the other guy was "talking out their ass." Again, not super relevant appeal to authority and some mean-spirited name calling.
> Not a 747 pilot (not sure why that matters here)... but a pilot. The flight positions are equal. The plane is designed to be flown the same from either flight position and this is routinely done. The guy saying otherwise is talking out their ass.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19675391
Another of your posts both claims you were trained as engineer and manages to call someone "full of crap" in the first two sentences.
> I personally think the gp is full of crap. I’m trained as an engineer and worked in industry a few years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674031
You just seem to love to tell everyone you're super special and smarter than them because of your accomplishments as a means of arguing and then put them down. It gives you instant validity to some of course, but I think it's just lazy. Your arguments should stand on their own merit. Not request to authority or anecdotes from your kind-of-related experience.