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When Is a Doctor a Doctor?

Why does soci­ety value the M.D. away from her place of work so much more than it does the Ph.D. away from her place of work? I can under­stand the need to dis­tin­guish the M.D. from the Ph.D. in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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You Won’t Get Burned At the Stake

Not like you would have been in times past; at least in most parts of the world. Not for under­tak­ing sci­en­tific research that is not approved by the estab­lished pow­ers. Most sci­en­tific research requires spon­sor­ship. In today’s world, only a … Con­tinue read­ing

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So Doctorate What

When you work in a tech­ni­cal indus­try, there is often a pre­mium placed upon advanced degrees in a tech­ni­cal field of study. Being some­one upon whom a doc­tor­ate in the­o­ret­i­cal stud­ies of a phys­i­cal sci­ence has been con­ferred, I have … Con­tinue read­ing

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