Good Morning Stephen: Well, my first email of the morning!. I am so glad you cleared this up for us.
:-) annette Quoting Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, there may be no one besides me who's interested in this, but > I'm going to let you have it anyway. > > In a recent post discussing the phenomenon of accomplished scientists > with peculiar beliefs, I referred to Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, a > bishop in the Raelian religion. I said this: > > "I was so incredulous concerning Dr. Bosselier's claimed degrees that > I recently verified them. Through the magic of e-mail, I was able to > find and query her dissertation advisor. He confirmed that she has a > Ph.D. from the University of Houston (1985) in chemistry and the > equivalent of an M.S. degree from the University of Dijon, France > (often incorrectly claimed to be another Ph.D. in chemistry)." > > I was pleased with myself. But it turns out that the answer was > apparently already waiting for me in the January 17th issue of > _Science_ on my coffee table at home, unread. In its "Random Samples" > section, under the heading "Clone Queen Has Two Ph.D.s", they > discussed the matter, and quoted her dissertation advisor Dr. Karl > Kadish as saying she was a "good, conscientious student". > > Only they got it wrong. Because he told me (as I told TIPS) that "She > has the equivalent of an M.S. degree from the University of > Dijon...the Dijon degree was once called the "Docteur de Troisieme > Cycle" which loosely translated is a doctorate (although it is not)." > > So _Science's_ error is understandable, but not the implied > endorsement of it by Dr. Kadish. He never said "two Ph.D.s". > > Stephen > ______________________________________________________________ > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 > Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 > Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 > Canada > > Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at > http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips > _________________________________________________________ > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
