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>Good luck entering [...] academia without a degree.

Given that a PhD is basically a training course on how to be a professor, I think that one might actually be fair. The harshest criticism of PhDs is that they are only vocational training for professors, even.



At least ideally, a PhD is a training course on how to do research professionally.




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