Maybe it's just me, but I'm noticing this more and more. Folk might post on MN with a view which others find controversial and in order to bolster their argument they will claim to do a certain job e.g. teacher, HCP, epidemiologist etc. Obviously, some WILL be telling the truth but there are occasions when it seems incredible they would hold a particular view if they did a certain job e.g. not many people who work in a frontline hospital role IRL are likely to be anti-mask/restrictions etc.
I noticed this a while back when I countered a poster who had a different view to myself on Covid and they eventually added that their brother was an ICU doctor as if to somehow justify what they were saying. I just read an anti-Lockdown thread and a regular poster claimed to own a company where the Government regularly employed them to solve complex problems, adding that they were one of the few people in the world with the skills and qualifications to find an alternative and more creative solution to the pandemic than Lockdown.
I'm probably being naive and this has always been a thing, but am noticing it so often at the moment. Anyone else see it a lot too?