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The folly of "authority"

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Dr Jack
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01-30-2012 2:57 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Evlreala
01-29-2012 11:07 PM

Scientific Qualifications are very low level
Scientific qualifications don't mean much to be honest.
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The highest qualification you can get in science is a PhD. A PhD just about prepares you to enter a career in research; to be an expert in anything more than the narrowest of slivers requires a decade of working as a scientist beyond that. Even long-standing professors are unlikely to have much knowledge beyond their particular specialities.
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Anyone who has a PhD in one area and uses it to justify their views on another is an idiot. I'm baffled by such people.
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01-30-2012 3:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 11 by Straggler
01-30-2012 3:16 PM

Re: Scientific Qualifications are very low level
There are such things, but they're not qualifications. Credentials, perhaps?
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