Do you think if somebody is a Doctor of something ( has a doctorate, not medical doctor) that you should address them as Dr when talking to them?
For eg, if somebody holds a doctorate in history, or some other subject
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CopperCicada · M
I have a PhD in a physical science and don't like to be addressed by any professional title.
There are contexts where it's meaningful. If one wants to establish some working credential. Having earned one's working papers.
Beyond that, I think it's a mixed bag.
There is clearly part of society that values higher education. That can be "othering" and alienating. It's weird being at a party and being introduced as having a PhD and everyone asking their pet science questions all night. Some of them weird. So if you cloned a sheep... of anti-matter... and cooled it to absolute zero and flew it into a black hole...
And there is clearly part of society that has very open and active contempt for higher education. The COVID thing make that clearer than ever. Refer to an actual journal article and you're just some mindless beta cuck establishment zombie. A PhD in a physical science means you hate God, are an atheist, want to destroy religion.
So I just ignore it.
There are contexts where it's meaningful. If one wants to establish some working credential. Having earned one's working papers.
Beyond that, I think it's a mixed bag.
There is clearly part of society that values higher education. That can be "othering" and alienating. It's weird being at a party and being introduced as having a PhD and everyone asking their pet science questions all night. Some of them weird. So if you cloned a sheep... of anti-matter... and cooled it to absolute zero and flew it into a black hole...
And there is clearly part of society that has very open and active contempt for higher education. The COVID thing make that clearer than ever. Refer to an actual journal article and you're just some mindless beta cuck establishment zombie. A PhD in a physical science means you hate God, are an atheist, want to destroy religion.
So I just ignore it.