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

we all know the truth. 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. 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]

Hard science degrees like a PhD in Chemistry, physics and the like took plenty of difficult courses that are not rote memorization. When my wife was getting her PhD, her labour was entirely exploited by her Prof at his company (or labs for other science grad students) as is fairly typical.  M-F were 12-14  hour days, sunday was 12-7, for a 19K a year stipend back in the early 2000's for 4-5 years. Sure no weighty life or death decisions though, though she certainly lived at the lab/company quite often.[/quote]

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