Obviously almost everyone who claims this on the internet is full of it. Full of themselves and full of shit.

That said, with time, patience, study and luck you can contribute meaningfully to an expert understanding of the world! A year or two back it was an amateur enthusiast who discovered that some markings near cave paintings of animals may correlate with reproductive cycles for those animals - an interpretation that gathered some expert support.

Right, but people don't actually say that, do they? It's more like

"Honey, I found some information that the world's top scientists and doctors are being paid to hide"

Well... Yes. This is what researchers do. It's part of science. Now you take the new data, form a falsifiable hypothesis, and do empirical experiments. Publish your research. The cycle is complete

Y'all laugh, but I know how secretly good for me drinking lead-sweetened borax water is!

Honey! It turns out viruses bigger than 5-10 microns CAN be airborne! Lots of bigger viruses are airborne! Some engineer told me! Yes, I know he's not a doctor and the CDC says otherwise.

The guy who came up with that number was doing secret bioweapon research on weaponizing TB! Yes, I know it's not very secret if the results ended up in every textbook in the last 70 years.

But the Chinese are using air filters to fight it!

-Like 10 people in 2020 when everyone was washing groceries and not wearing masks.

You can also get Casandra Syndrome if you apply some critical thought to the news.

More like the client who paid for my firms services coming in, belittling the very professionals they paid to do their job and acting as if they know better.

Reminds me of Trae Crowder's video about Ivermectin. "This is what every doctor in the world has missed!"

Yep, this is going in my reply images folder

"Albert, you're just a patent clerk. Do you really think you figured out something all those scientists around the world haven't?"

Depending on the field it can be "I found a way to synthesize something in a way other scientists didn't think was possible".

But that's generally attributed to using new techniques that weren't a thing when the "other scientists" made the claim.