• weariedfae@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t give a fuck about Blossom, if I met a dude in a bar who says he has a PhD in neuroscience and 2 published papers it would not think twice about calling him a scientist, even if he currently works flipping burgers with no plans to return.

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      6 months ago

      I met a dude in a bar who says he has a PhD in neuroscience and 2 published papers it would not think twice about calling him a scientist

      I would be more interested in how they managed to get through their PhD without having anything published but their thesis. Most PhD recipients are having to be published 3 times during their PhD alone.

      Her first publication appears to be from graduate school.

      I mean it’s mostly a semantic dispute, there is no real standardization for the title scientist.