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These questions answer themselves, don't they? Once one sees that, one finds that even when one is out of one's own academic lane (or doesn't even have one), that separating the bad actors from the good ones isn't really so hard.
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Those who are of bad character will give themselves away, almost without fail. All that one has to do is watch them in action, and their true selves will come out.
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A lowlife with a degree remains a lowlife. S/he merely becomes a more dangerous lowlife, one to be more actively guarded against. Never forget that.
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And you're hearing this from a PhD student in one of the STEM subjects. I can already hear one of our Left-leaning friends trying to chalk this one up to the anti-intellectualism of the Right, but that's not going to fly, in this case.
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When I talk about that which is good to be found in our community, and that which is depraved, I'm not just guessing. I've been there. I've seen both with my own eyes.
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I've also seen a lot of stuff that clearly isn't Science being marketed as if it were, so that universities could sell more expensive "advanced degree" programs to well healed students.
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The students wouldn't really learn how to do much of anything other than recite the scripts they had memorized, but now, they felt free to call themselves "scientists" and learned that they would be validated as they did so.
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They had purchased credibility for themselves, at great cost to the scientific community and of Academia in general, but the dean of student's new mansion wasn't going to fund itself, so what was a little academic w h o r i n g among friends? 
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The OP looks like one of those purchased credibility cases. She'll remember the (true) script about the ill effects of vitamin D deficiency, but basic Chemistry (oil vs. water solubility) was lost on her.
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This kind of fragile, substance-less learning is not something that should ever be passed off as Science, because to do so is unethical. This does the student, who receives a false education, a grave disservice, as it does to the future victims of the student's malpractice.
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No ethical scientist would ever be a party to the creation of the kind of degree program that would leave the student with this kind of false, shallow learning.
But not all scientists are ethical. Certainly, not all admins are, either.
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In either case, why would they be? All that intelligence and learning allow one to do is see things more clearly. What one does with that clarity is a matter of character, not intelligence or learning.
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