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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]whatever makes them feel good about themselves.

we all know the truth. [b]we all know they didn't do 48 hour shifts at a teaching hospital, or pass organic chemistry, or make it through a med school app process or match day.[/b] we also know they don't make decisions under uncertainly every day, nor life/death decisions, nor have weighty decisions to make while taking 4 years to maybe publish something in a niche journal.

and they can thank us any day for paying taxes to support the grant money for their 6+ years of grad school toils. [/quote]

Um, not clear what the point is that you're trying to make.  So anything that's not med school is not a worthy professional endeavor?  Why is med school the comparator?[/quote]

PP is resentful that my PhD (physics) was paid for 100% by grant funds.  I also supplied very cheap labor to the gov't while doing my research, and [b]we made some import discoveries that actually matter.  [/b]After finishing, I made decent money; now I am paid near the median salary for primary care physician with zero debt.[/quote]

I'm the immediate poster before you.  I have a PhD in a "soft" science (think, epidemiology or similar), but have read several lay astrophysics books for fun (Brief History of Time, The Elegant Universe, etc.).  I'm curious about the discoveries made in your lab while in grad school.  Very cool![/quote]

My work had to do with the mechanics of mountain building and how it relates to earthquake hazards.  We specifically looked at earthquakes to image the stress field under several mountain ranges.  Big thing was ending the concept of aseismic deformation; this mattered because it lead to understanding that regions without earthquakes could more be because of the time between them rather than because they are aseismic.  Think Pacific NW, as an example.  We postulated warning that the area under central Taiwan appeared to be overdue for a major earthquake, based on numerical modeling in the early 90's.  Unfortunately, we were proven right in 1999.[/quote]

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