Science runs pretty quick but most people aren't ready to see it real-time

 This is an amalgamation of two completely unrelated and separate threads of thoughts I've been having and exploring that do have somewhat of a uniting logic.

First, I want to discuss the innovations in kombucha technology. Since it's a 'combined colony' that thrives on tea primarily, and contains hundreds of different bacteria and yeast, people (read: researchers) have been trying to use it to inoculate everything under the Sun. Apparently seaweed tea (!) profile improves when fermented with kombucha. And a bunch of undigestible sugars and large-chain acids break down in soy milk. And a bunch of other super healthy drinks. And now they're exploring making coffee kombucha. Kombucha is used just as a reproductive medium, the 'active medium' is always some new exciting product. Though obviously kombucha won't thrive in those.

It's been a wild ride for me because I went back to the literature after a gap of a year, maybe two, and wow so many new techniques and experimentation! Like did you know if you subjected kombucha to low-frequency low-power ultrasonics, the rate of reaction and growth increases? Who even thought of the idea, yoo!

So that's the first thing.

The second topic is a bit...stressful whatever. The fools who've been using unauthorized medication to presumably treat themselves while unbelieving the peer-reviewed and verified vaccines put most of their faith on one piece of un-reviewed paper from pre-print. And then after the whole ruckus it comes out that the paper was severely faulty and had to be retracted. That's how science works, people put out papers, they're reviewed, and attempts made to reproduce them. Some are successfully copied over and over again, and become a backbone in a field. Others get left by the way.

The fact the general public now gets to see unreviewed preprints in real time and make judgments on them without any sort of expertise besides the 'having a brain' thing is turning out to be problematic because people consider themselves to be smarter than they really are, and take the wrong message from the process.

Pity.

If there were better informed, smarter people around, maybe they'd be helping reproduce those experiments as citizen scientists rather than add like a bunch of idiotic monkeys.

The education system of this gd system is to be blamed, like always.

Alas.