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73 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Sep \ parent \ on: The Zen of Referring meta

You can't copyright a title. I'm starting to see why someone used to be a practicing lawyer.

I was too busy keeping people out of the slammer to worry about intellectual property rights.

Some people do the work required to protect the liberty and freedoms of the common man. Others write articles about it and call themselves doctor.

90 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 15 Sep

I use this joke all the time with a friend. He has a doctorate in psychology.

73 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Sep

Does he go by "Dr."? Most economists have the good sense to just go by their names, like normal people do.

57 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 15 Sep

He does! I mock him. He laughs, but deep down I think he hates me for it.

52 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 15 Sep

I have to admit there are degrees along the spectrum where I can see it being justified. Any of the hard sciences, engineering. Maybe even economics. Psychology? No

63 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 15 Sep

In my experience, insistence on the title varies inversely with the rigor of the discipline.

I think mathematicians and physicists are often so bizarrely intelligent that we want to label them.

48 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 15 Sep

I agree