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                                             October 24, 2015
                                             November 6, 2015
                                             
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Back on the subject of honorary doctorates, let me
consider another case: K. Eric Drexler.                      NANOTECH
manufacturing with atomic-scale precision (aka
"nanotechnology"), but this odd mix of theory
and engineering from a strange outsider didn't
sit well with the old guard in established
fields like Chemistry.

He got a lot push back from people playing the "but you don't
even have a PhD!" card. He was then awarded what I've always
assumed was essentially an honorary PhD-- from the "MIT Media
Lab"? What did his nanotech thesis have to do with them? His
PhD looked like it was given to him as a maneuver to make it
harder for people to avoid taking him seriously.

(The way I put it: Drexler had made it through the filters of
folks at the MIT Media Lab, and they were trying to get him
through the first stage filters of the traditional hard
sciences.)

But then, it's not like Drexler has never received an earned
degree, he had a Bachelor's and Master's from MIT before getting
this (possibly) "honorary" PhD.
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