I write about a lot of different things, and mostly in areas where I do not have any sort of formal training. For example, I write quite a bit about medical research for my animal rights web site, but I confess I used my high entrance exam scores to opt out of all of the required science and math courses during college.
Sometimes a little self-doubt does creep in and I ask myself “do I really know what I’m talking about here?” Well, at least sometimes I apparently do.
Last night I wrote an article summarizing primate research into heroin addiction, and criticizing animal rights distortions of that research. When I got to work this morning there was an e-mail from one of the scientists involved with this research complimenting me on the way I summarized and explained the research.
Not bad.