AKRON, OH — Derek Holloway, 41, logged into a social media platform Tuesday evening to watch a video about sourdough bread and emerged forty minutes later a fully self-certified expert in epidemiology, geopolitics, monetary policy, ancient history, and the structural integrity of the human spine.

Holloway, a regional flooring sales manager with no prior academic credentials in any of the above fields, described the experience as “clarifying.” He has since corrected three coworkers, his chiropractor, and a man at a gas station.

“I went in skeptical,” Holloway told reporters from a folding chair in his garage. “By reply 47, I realized I had been lied to my entire life. By reply 112, I had a working theory on everything.”

“He sent me four links at 11 p.m. and said ‘do your research.’ Two were broken. One was a PDF from 2003. The last one was a recipe.”

His wife, Carla Holloway, 39, confirmed that Derek has been “a lot to be around” since Tuesday. “He sent me four links at 11 p.m. and said ‘do your research.’ Two were broken. One was a PDF from 2003. The last one was a recipe.”

Dr. Patricia Weng, 54, a board-certified immunologist at Summa Health, was unavailable for comment, as she has not read the thread and therefore, per Holloway, “doesn’t have the full picture.”

Holloway has not returned to the sourdough video.

At press time, Holloway had begun a new thread to share what he had learned, and was already being corrected by a man whose profile photo was a cartoon wolf.