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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: has anybody heard of this letter?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725192131snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <78571@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 10:15:31 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <78571@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM writes:
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- > It has always amazed me how just because somebody starts putting Phd.
- > after their name, they begin to feel they are experts in all fields.
- > Unless these so called scientists have their degrees in meterology, their
- > opinions are worth no more than yours or mine.
-
- Yes, this is a bit of a worry. We have a Professor here who heads a
- very significant environmental lobby group under the protection of his
- tenured academic salary, I found myself taking some time to come to
- terms with.
-
- Turned out he is a physicist whose scholarly interest is in developing
- and commercialising alternative technology gadgets . . .
-
- Humph!
-
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