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Re:Do scientists really need a PhD? by wisty on Monday January 02, 2012 @10:22AM (#3416138)
They oversee R&D programs. They might not be good scientists, but they do a very good job running an R&D intensive organization. Unless your definition of science is "writes papers nobody reads about stuff no-one cares about while being payed tax dollars", industrial R&D can also be science. Of course, Facebook is a terrible example. Google would be a much better one. Intel or Boeing would be even better.

There'll be people who say that computer R&D isn't science, because it's just gimped math or hand-wavy pretend engineering, but they'd be the same people who say that most of the stuff computer science academics do is also crap.

Re:Do scientists really need a PhD? by zerostar07 on Monday January 02, 2012 @01:23PM (#3416775)
Scientists seek knowledge, entrepreneurs seek profits. One has to collaborate with the other a lot. Scientists and Entrepreneurs can equally well produce crap, with scientists being more methodological about it. It's a symbiotic relationship, not a power play.