Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Thanks, Ralph 477, expert edition
Populists love it when elitists do our work for us.
This arrogant and condescending essay in SciAm does more for the cause than anything Salvini or Orban says.
Last month, National Public Radio’s current ombudsman/public editor, Elizabeth Jensen, explained why the news organization does not confer “Doctor” on PhDs; it reserves the title for “individuals who hold a doctor of dental surgery, medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, podiatric medicine or veterinary medicine.” As a trained scientist with a PhD in epidemiology, I was extremely disheartened and disappointed to learn that news organizations follow such a simplistic, flawed and misguided recommendation, particularly as national sentiment suggests that experts are increasingly unnecessary.The expert went on to run the usual tapes about gender equity, Kavanaugh, etc. Amazingly she missed "Climate Change". In SCIENTIFIC FACT the NPR choice is SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT. SCIENCE requires us to understand how things actually FUNCTION. In the ACTUAL FUNCTIONING of human language, words are defined by common usage, NOT by the personal desires of egomaniacs. Common usage reserves 'doctor' for medical practitioners. This egomaniac wants to replace the SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING of language by HER PERSONAL NEEDS, thus proving that experts are not only unnecessary but LETHAL TO SCIENCE. Which we already knew. Thanks, Ralph!
Labels: Emersonian justice
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