One of those things...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The truly funny bit about Epstein’s objection to someone with a doctorate in education referring to herself as a doctor is that ‘doctor’ is one of the Latin words for ‘teacher’.

Boru

[awty]

There seems to have been an increase in "click bait" thread titles recently...has it gone out of fashion to actually say what the thread is about in the thread title?

Sorry, I tend to like drama and surprise. I find news paper like titles boring. But if it's a nuisance then I guess I'd go with the boring.

It's not a nuisance.  Some people just like to bitch.

[Apollo]

The truly funny bit about Epstein’s objection to someone with a doctorate in education referring to herself as a doctor is that ‘doctor’ is one of the Latin words for ‘teacher’.

Boru

Ouch. Now that's ironic.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The truly funny bit about Epstein’s objection to someone with a doctorate in education referring to herself as a doctor is that ‘doctor’ is one of the Latin words for ‘teacher’.

Boru

Ouch. Now that's ironic.

Delightfully so. Belligerent ignorance like Epstein’s is always a giggle.

Boru

[Angrboda]

Can an Honorary Ph.D. use "Dr."?

They can, but they usually don’t.

Boru

Unless they're creationists or evangelical pastors.

[Apollo]

I think I know what’s happening—this is deja vu all over again—I remember when Obama got elected the Right went batshit crazy and a long barrage of cuckoo rhetoric started. It was comical in a sense how the Right lost its mind.  We are now seeing same shit reappearing—as Jan 20 draws near we’ll see a lot of this craziness becoming the norm.

[awty]

All this doctor discussion brings to mind two things for me.

One is how pissed my mother was when my then future sister-in-law brought a wedding announcement to show my parents and dad was down as Mr. He was a veterinarian - a DVM - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.

The other happened a couple years ago when I was in a salon having a pedicure and some big-mouthed woman was holding court with everyone who would listen. I managed to keep my mouth shut as she regaled her rapt audience on why veterinarians weren't really doctors...they were people who flunked out of medical school.