Reliance on One-Time Paper Credentials - that plus
the hubris of.. a certain high-% [?] of many who profess to know things:
Got us the AMA and its Undisciplined and Undiscipline-able (inevitable) minority of quacks: those who (last vague #s I recall) are <10% of the Total 'Self-Governing' Body [Hah] and accrue 60? 80%? of malpractice events (and that is just the ratio for those who ran the gantlet all the way to Filing! - via that Other 'Profess-ion'). These are Un_Removable since this club was first formed.. and began to eliminate all the {many, actually} competing approaches to maintaining that chimera, health. (Ours are trained to merely, "try to fix disease symptoms" - itself a hightly arguabke paradigm BTW)
I appreciate the sense of Unfairness when the worthy are passed-over by the popular Slime with a gift for gab, but I also believe that this state of affairs has more to do with the Pop Idol notion which permeates every aspect of Murican 'culture' - and merely spills over, unavoidably -- even into raw science, where we would suppose that Merit-only could more easily be discerned [?] (And any illusions about whether a degree is much related to Original Thought in *that* small area of work -except as an Entry Pass- don't accord with the history of the field).
Most soap operas and stories abound in the 'clever ploy' via which the unsung wannabe-hero Gets to Be a 'Hero' once foot got in That Door. (in the murky demi-sense of that word, whenever applied to anything remotely related to accumulating infinite $$ forever and ever.)
I thought that.. in John Dewey pragmatic bizness: the One who (proves s/he) can Do the job - was supposed to get it; also keep it "so long as". So then: if hanky-panky gets someone In and.. they also Do Do the Job.. in due time:
What Should the Punishment Be? if they sneaked-in?
(Should we then also apply this punishment to an entire cabal that "sneaked-in" via Friends at the Top, in a crucial part of Government? Rather recently.)
Sorry but - I (still) just don't see an EZ fits-All slogan for this pesky and common Murican glitch.. in the way people are slotted into prefab 'jobs' via a resum\ufffd and Good Teeth. (Unless you imagined that bizness even pretends to 'select' in the same way that University 'pretends to select' ??)
Ashton, Dense I guess.
