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  • So... some crazy poster once upon a time claimed to you to have 5 PhDs in addition to a long list of other improbable things... and therefore anyone with a PhD is lying, stupid, and experts in general are not to be trusted?

    And CP's wife does some proof-reading for PhD students and their spelling can be poor, therefore all PhDs are stupid?
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    • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
      So... some crazy poster once upon a time claimed to you to have 5 PhDs in addition to a long list of other improbable things... and therefore anyone with a PhD is lying, stupid, and experts in general are not to be trusted?

      And CP's wife does some proof-reading for PhD students and their spelling can be poor, therefore all PhDs are stupid?
      That’s a mighty impressive strawman you created for yourself there, but the point being made is those who claim to be brilliant might be in some areas, but struggle in others. I mean you’re the one who seriously argued that 5 year olds should be able to vote while showing profound ignorance of the psychology of children that basically every parent knows or really anyone with any experience with small children knows. You might be brilliant in your chosen field but you show some pretty profound ignorance to anything else.
      "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
      GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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      • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
        One of the responsibilities my wife has is being a support specialist to several PhDs... she does the workflow for their publications, and they often have her proofread their writings... you would be amazed at the spelling and grammar errors...
        Not really. My grandmother worked for engineering groups from the 70’s to early 2000’s and she mentioned similar stuff too. It appears to not be limited to academia.
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        • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          So... some crazy poster once upon a time claimed to you to have 5 PhDs in addition to a long list of other improbable things... and therefore anyone with a PhD is lying, stupid, and experts in general are not to be trusted?

          And CP's wife does some proof-reading for PhD students and their spelling can be poor, therefore all PhDs are stupid?
          Paranoid much?

          I'm always still in trouble again

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          • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
            There are some people in the world who prove that anybody can sit in the right classrooms for the right number of hours, and write enough BS that they eventually get a piece of paper that they can hang on their wall to impress their friends and the unsuspecting.

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            • Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
              Not really. My grandmother worked for engineering groups from the 70’s to early 2000’s and she mentioned similar stuff too. It appears to not be limited to academia.
              Well, yeah... when I was a popo, I had to review incident reports for the Uniform Crime Report that we sent to the FBI -- the spelling and grammar of the young cops WITH DEGREES was atrocious. What made it worse was that they thought they had to write "official-like".... trying to "legalize" their language, but it just made it worse.

              I'll never forget one of the funniest.... "as I approached the subject, I alighted from my patrol vehicle...." That guy never lived that down. He "alighted" from his patrol vehicle!
              The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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              • Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                ...He also frequently bragged that he is "God's favorite saint"
                This is about me, isn't it?
                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  So... some crazy poster once upon a time claimed to you to have 5 PhDs in addition to a long list of other improbable things... and therefore anyone with a PhD is lying, stupid, and experts in general are not to be trusted?
                  No, Star, the claims are compared and contrasted with their actual posting - that's what you missed.

                  And CP's wife does some proof-reading for PhD students and their spelling can be poor, therefore all PhDs are stupid?
                  Again, you overshot the runway -- first of all, it's not just PhD students -- MOST of the people she proofs for are actual PhDs.... there are also some candidates. And it's not the point that they are ALL stupid -- that's rather stupid to assume that -- but that... let me type this part really slowly.....

                  JUST BECAUSE somebody has a PhD (or claimes to) doesn't mean they're smart.


                  (I think you're ignorantly proving our case)
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                    Well, yeah... when I was a popo, I had to review incident reports for the Uniform Crime Report that we sent to the FBI -- the spelling and grammar of the young cops WITH DEGREES was atrocious. What made it worse was that they thought they had to write "official-like".... trying to "legalize" their language, but it just made it worse.

                    I'll never forget one of the funniest.... "as I approached the subject, I alighted from my patrol vehicle...." That guy never lived that down. He "alighted" from his patrol vehicle!
                    You were in the Dragonball animes?






                    I'm always still in trouble again

                    "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                    "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                    "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                    • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                      This is about me, isn't it?
                      Only if you said things like "If God had a fridge, He would have a picture of me on the door."

                      I'm always still in trouble again

                      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                      • Getting weirder.

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                        Birth rates are still highest among minorities (although evidently the demographic sky stopped falling when someone realized that replacing 76% of the population with another race can't actually happen in two decades on attrition alone) so I'm beginning to wonder if the Democrats actually hate their base?
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                        • Originally posted by Teallaura View Post

                          Getting weirder.

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                          Birth rates are still highest among minorities (although evidently the demographic sky stopped falling when someone realized that replacing 76% of the population with another race can't actually happen in two decades on attrition alone) so I'm beginning to wonder if the Democrats actually hate their base?
                          Considering how they rigged their primaries (so much for making every vote count) they obviously don't trust them to make the correct choice.

                          I'm always still in trouble again

                          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                          • Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                            Oh, cut the melodramatic BS. Wiki is hardly all possible sources of knowledge.
                            Um, to be fair i think he meant they attack all sources in general - not that wiki was the source of all knowledge.

                            It's still melodramatic and silly, but there are times when he has a point - and other times when he's doing the exact same thing...

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                            • Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                              Um, to be fair i think he meant they attack all sources in general - not that wiki was the source of all knowledge.

                              It's still melodramatic and silly, but there are times when he has a point - and other times when he's doing the exact same thing...

                              Oh, I'm well aware he meant that. I was pointing out the melodrama of using a dismissal of wiki as equivalent to attacking all sources in general.
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                              • Originally posted by ke7ejx View Post
                                I'm totally questioning the validity of said Ph.D. I can't think of a single dissertation committee letting you pass if you haven't read original sources for your studies. You have absolutely no credibility, Starlight.
                                And this too, is a misreading, I think. No physicist bothers to read Newton's Principles - there's no need and it's wrong anyway (long story as to why). There's no reason he couldn't get a Phd in physics without reading Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kelpler, ad infinitum.

                                Only if his thesis rests on something specific in those sources would he need it for his dissertation - and that's extremely unlikely.

                                It's also probably why he does so badly in philosophy - unlike science*, you really DO need a working knowledge of the original source material.































                                *Sticky point, a physicist would have a 'working knowledge' of Newton - but he still wouldn't need to read Principles to get it.
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