/sci/ - Science & Math

>science forum
>seriously discussing the flat earth

>>9237809
So that's what this was about.

> some friends talking about canada
> a guy goes "there's a really big fentanol problem in the tribal communities there"
.> some mishears him
> fentanol
> YEAH FENTANOL
> he keeps repeating it
> i'm on my phone in the corner but I can't bear it and overreact with an icy tone because i often hear this guy trying to talk with authority about drugs when he knows less than nothing
> It's pronounced Fentanyl. Fentan-yl.
> Yeah, whatever man. That. It's killing everyone who takes it. It's really dangerous.
> Another friend asks me what it is (he's a physicist and knows I'm a pharma chemist).
> It's an opioid analgesic roughly two orders higher potency than morphine. It's not that it possesses a unique form of inherent toxicity, it's that the high potency makes measurement haphazard and a shorter half-life can complicate the timing of doses.
> the guy interjects again
> no that's wrong it's like pharmaceutical meth
> stare him down
> Desoxyn is pharmaceutical meth and is prescribed for emergency weight loss. It has no connection to Fentanyl, being from a separate class of drugs that produce observe effects through different mechanisms.
> well it said in the documentary i watched that it was pharmaceutical meth and it's nasty stuff

I felt really dirty and autistic afterwards for responding so aggressively, but it also felt good while I was doing it.

Does anyone relate to this? I get very ambivalent feelings of ride and self-disgust simultaneously when I aggressively bodyslam people not in my field when they try to spread poor quality info on it. Do you think this is a good thing to do to make use of your knowledge and improve that of other people or is it weaponized autism? I do this really often and sometimes I worry that I'm actively looking for opportunities to academically flex. Do you have any similar stories you'd like to share?