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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Dr"

Yeah, right ;)

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Come on. In your own professional setting, it's fine to use Dr. as a title when you've earned a doctorate in that field. [/quote]

It's technically accurate but widely mocked among PHD holders.  The title is widely understood to be used primarily by medical doctors.[/quote]

I[b]’m a professor with a science PhD from Yale.  [/b]Can confirm.  [b]The only people in PhD circles in America who insist on using “Dr” are the ones who want to flaunt their degrees.  [/b]

[b]It is widely mocked amongst PhD holders[/b].[/quote]

I'm one of the Ph.D. PPs.  This is completely untrue--I've worked in an academic and other professional setting where people routinely refer to Ph.D.s as "Dr." in formal discourse, first contact emails, etc.

What's your field, science professor?[/quote]

I'm one of the PPs too.  The above is correct.
American universities rarely dwell on the Dr. title.  Others may use it to refer to them, but self-confident PhD holders will almost never use it to describe themselves.  
European academia is different.

Anyone with a PhD who refers to [i]themselves[/i] as "Dr", or anyone who uses it when you wouldn't use "Mr" or "Ms", deserves mocking.

Not sure who you're familiar with in the press, but you don't hear about Dr. Jay Rosen or Dr. Noah Smith or Dr. Fareed Zakaria or Dr. Paul Krugman or Dr. Joseph Stiglitz.
(the fake "Doctor" Sebastian Gorka uses his in his twitter handle, the counterexample that proves the rule.  Ha.)

The title, for non-clinician doctors, is almost always omitted unless the reference is very formal.  It is certainly omitted in the headline of a DCUM thread.[/quote]

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