Vancouver Sun Columnist Argues Science is a Method, Not A Credential

Any mention of Alexandra Morton, the feisty whistleblower who first drew unwelcome attention to sea lice and the interaction between farmed and wild salmon in the Broughton archipelago, routinely draws e-mail scoffing that she's not a "real" scientist because she doesn't have a PhD.

Science is not a credential. Science is a method. Science is practised every day by people who don't have PhDs. Indeed, people without academic credentials as we'd recognize them today laid the foundations for our entire edifice of scientific knowledge.

And some who hold PhDs are not practising science but use the credential to lend weight to opinions that they wish to advance in service of other agendas -- corporate objectives, government policy, propaganda supporting various causes, etc.

Read the full article in the Vancouver Sun.