Science versus Academia [View all]

[Boojatta]

Science is an idea, and academic institutions are actual organizations that have specific internal power structures, managers with idiosyncratic personalities, official written policies, unwritten policies, restrictions imposed by those who provide money for the institutions to operate, etc.

Does the mere fact that somebody has a Ph.D. in science from a reputable, accredited academic institution imply that the dissertation itself or subsequent peer-reviewed papers written by the holder of the Ph.D. are actually works of science?

Note: I considered posting this in the Science forum, but this message falls in the category meta-science, not science. I suspect that meta-science belongs in the category Philosophy rather than in the category Science. Philosophy is a general category for discussion, as it includes such things as ethics and logic. Thus, Philosophy seems to be a subcategory of General Discussion.