- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) English28•1 month ago
Don’t necessarily need to have a Ph.D. A professor of history once published a paper saying “No Irish Need Apply” signs were a myth. A 14 year old found counterexamples, and did a good enough job to get the takedown published.
- henfredemars ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English19•1 month ago
I published a paper where six other papers referenced what I covered as literally impossible and it often made me quite angry that nobody was looking into this because of that incorrect statement 20 years ago. To this day I remember that papers are written by humans and are not infallible.
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English12•1 month ago
During one journal club-style group meeting, our PI was tearing into a paper and basically calling it bullshit. We had a highschool intern in the group, and he turned to me and said, “but it’s peer reviewed…how can it be wrong?”
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English15•1 month ago
It was mostly just so I could make people I don’t like call me Dr.
- Transporter Room 3 ( @Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ) English6•1 month ago
I know this is a joke, but are there seriously people who think someone who doesn’t like you is going to call you “Doctor” because you have a piece of paper?
Of course it’s not just a piece of paper, it requires metric shitloads of dedication, hard work, and all manner of things about which I haven’t the faintest idea.
But the person who doesn’t like you doesn’t care about all that.
Unless there is some sort of reason they need to appease you or someone at an organization they’re part of (work, personal stuff, whatever) they have no reason to acknowledge your hard work.
And honestly, when someone gives me that look and corrects me with “it’s DOCTOR” in that tone, I make a point to never refer to them as doctor, simply because of our first interaction. Be more friendly when introducing yourself as “Dr. Name Lastname”. And maybe learn to live with the fact that not everyone cares about titles.
Sorry for the rant, semi-serious question, it just struck a nerve because someone did this to me recently and did not react well to me continuing to call them by their first name.
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English4•1 month ago
Hah no, I have never actually done that, nor do I plan to, and I never write my name, or introduce myself in person, with Dr./PhD.
- Chuymatt ( @Chuymatt@beehaw.org ) English6•1 month ago
It’s only appropriate in professional settings. People who try and pull rank like that in social settings make it clear who to stay away from.
- Transporter Room 3 ( @Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ) English4•1 month ago
Well, Dr. @qjkxbmwvz, I will gladly address you as doctor here to both acknowledge your hard work, and the fact that you aren’t an arrogant prick about things.
Cheers!
- 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English2•1 month ago
I can do that without a PhD by just being intimidating enough. Or a lab coat and the right attitude.
- Taako_Tuesday ( @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ) English10•1 month ago
Same. The undergrad paper that led me to pursue a PhD was a response to a published paper that didn’t use a control group.
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•1 month ago
i like how this is the academic version of “fuck you i’ll do it myself then”
- FlihpFlorp ( @FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ) English4•1 month ago
See also: Sigmund Freud