Baking Soda Volcano Bias

The fundamental and arrogant misconception that all fields of science, and indeed the entire pursuit of knowledge, are as simple and easily reproducible as a grade-school baking soda volcano experiment. It’s the bias that leads people to think they can dismiss climate science, epidemiology, or evolutionary biology with the same casual confidence they'd have criticizing a failed baking project. It’s a metabias because it colors how you view the entire process of science itself—as a trivial, one-off trick anyone can do.

Example: "He watched one YouTube video and now thinks he knows more about vaccine development than the entire CDC. Textbook Baking Soda Volcano Bias."

Baking Soda Volcano Bias by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026