Scientists Formed by Apprenticeship, Not Classes

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Robert_Byers

PhD, surely in most approaching all, cases, is gained by people in their early/mid twenties.
they are just revealing what they memorized. I know its hard work but i see no innovation or science going on or very little.

This is false. It appears you do not know much about what PhD requires.

@Robert_Byers

Anyways scientist is a person of action. One only starts AFTER school is finished.

This is false. Every science PhD has to do original scientific work in order to gradaute.

@Robert_Byers

Then anyone doing it IS a scientist.
I don’t see education as relevant at all. A computer knows all science but nobody should say its a scientist.
its a verb and not a noun.

PhD education is an apprenticeship. I know of zero people who are doing scientific work who have not been apprenticed for years.