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To: Kirkwood

"They need to revoke this guy's PhD (assuming he even has one)."

He doesn't have one. Why schools promote unqualified people to the level of professor is a mystery to me.


29 posted on 09/08/2006 11:06:55 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Kirkwood

"He doesn't have one [A Ph.D]. Why schools promote unqualified people to the level of professor is a mystery to me."

Two of my best professors in College (University of Michigan College of Engineering) did not have Ph.Ds. One had an MSE, the other one just a BSNAME. Both, however had virtually invented the aspect of Naval Architecture that they were teaching, and knew a lot more than most Engineering Ph.Ds. They were also brilliant teachers. (Not all professors can teach, trust me.) So the presence or lack of a Ph.D -- in isolation -- is not evidence of competence.

That said, this guy at BYU is a loon -- independent of his degrees or lack of them. I believe he was involved in some of the Fleishman and Ponds nonesense about cold fusion in the 1980s, which should have been a warning back then.


35 posted on 09/08/2006 2:50:57 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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