11-29-2007, 02:05 PM
Randall Flagg Wrote:No, this idea is completely wrong, as I'm sure Dr. Hayes can tell you. He would only have to constantly defend his KU degree if he goes to the DI/DD forums and meets up with the gang and their followers. In the real world, he probably has never even been asked about it, good or bad. In the real world of business and commerce, they are busy doing not wondering.
Never in all the years I've had my two state approved degrees have I been challenged by an employer or friend, OR ANYONE. Now at DI or DD that would be a different story. There the holders of substandard RA degrees like Douglas and the providers of the very type degrees we hold, Bear and Douglas, now they do attack and help attack us, as they try to separate their past actions and behaviors from ours. They wanted the money from their various activities, but they no longer want the hsitory they were part of.
You see the used car salesman wants to sell you what he has on the lot today. He can't sell you what he sold last month, and there is their mistake. People know what they sold and the words told to them by the salesmen. In fact the quality of the used cars are in truth no better now than then, just different.
Spot-on Randall. Never once in my long involvement with wetlands and waterfowl have I ever been asked about what qualifications I have to carry out such work - creating wetlands, enhancing wetlands, managing wetlands, writing about wetlands, managing rare waterfowl, etc. And in the vast majority of situations it is what people can do and what they achieve that is of prime importance.
My hero has always been Sir Peter Scott, who founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in the UK, and who saved numerous waterfowl species from extinction - without any qualification to carry out such work. Gerald Durrell, who founded the Jersey Zoo, and who saved many animals from extinction also had no qualifications to carry out such work. And I'm sure neither was ever asked about their qualifications.