The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162623   Message #3874263
Posted By: Iains
30-Aug-17 - 05:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: G.B. and N.I.?
Subject: RE: BS: G.B. and N.I.?
"Do apprise us!"
Getting rattled Shaw? Do you seriously think you are the only person on this forum with a BSc, MSc, PhD, or chartered status? Your assumed superiority and polymathic skill set may have worked on your hapless, young and naive pupils, but in the real world where some of us work using real science, we find it best to retain a little humility. The passage of time and additional research has a nasty habit of overturning longheld beliefs.
As an example when Libby introduced carbon dating it was thought to be the bees knees. Relatively simple and accurate. Later research proved this idea wrong on both counts. Correcting C14 to produce accuracy is complex and ongoing.
I do not have the feeling of inferiority that I should need to quote half the alphabet after my name to give substance to my argument. I prefer it to rise or fall on it's own merit. You know the old adage Shaw: Those that can, do..................
Having been a consultant since about 1982 I do not have any need to prove anything, least of all to an insecure little man like you.
Unlike you I do not worship qualifications. They are useful, but many people without formal qualifications also make significant contributions to science. The net worth of the individual is far more important than the number of bits of paper he/she can wave around (and I do not mean financial worth)
As I have said to you before-learn a little humility!