Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by Lillydale
I consider my degrees, experience, employment, publications, consultancies, and such, as personal information.
You can consider yourself superman if you like as well. That will not make you able to fly, nor will it make a degree personal information.
You apparently don't, which is why you are confused.
I am not at all confused. I know the difference between personal information and NOT personal in any way shape or form information. No matter what
anyone, you or I, think about it - there is no personal information in a degree. That is just a fact. It is not debatable. It is not an opinion. It is
not something you consider or not. It is a fact. There is no personal information in a degree title.
None of these should effect anything regarding the validity of my arguments and discussions.
It shouldn't but it certainly does affect your credibility. Lets just run it down, shall we not?
You claimed to have all this expertise, experience, education.
You were asked to back ANY of that up.
You were asked for something as simple as a degree.
You claimed that you could not do that because it was against T&C.
It is NOT against T&C anywhere so you moved on.
Now it is what you consider to be personal against all logic.
I provided some information a few posts back. Do you believe it?
You mean the rather personal sounding info about where you work? Here is my problem with believing any of that.
If your education did not matter as much as your posts, why brag about it?
If you are not willing to provide the most basic info about your education, why brag about it?
If you are as educated as you claim, why do you think there is personal information in a degree title?
If you are still going to insist that there is something so personal in a title completely void of any personal data that you cannot reveal it -
because it is personal, then why would you tell us all that info you are referring to if it is true?
I could be wrong, is this what you mean -"If I told you that I had a PhD in organic chemistry and supervised a lab of 53 PhD scientists and
engineers, including post-docs and university profs, until retiring, would you believe me?" If so, the answer is certainly no. No one would tell me
they had a PhD in Organic Chemistry and then continue to tell me why they refuse to tell me what degrees they have. See the paradox?
If you do, how will it effect your acceptance my arguments? Of course, it shouldn't affect anyones' acceptance of them at all. They should
stand on their own.
and yet they don't. As far as I can see, this thread is still going. So far, as you have done much posturing, you have provided little real argument.
The crux of your argument seems to rely on the idea that you are supersmart and Jones is a buffoon. If you would like to change my perception, please
do.
I reiterate my offer of explaining any aspect of Jones paper at any technical level that you are comfortable with.
Thanks for the U2U. Merry Christmas, Lillydale.
There was no need to take you up on your offer the first time. Merry Christmas to you too.
