<p>The point is, a PhD can do things that no amount of BS can do. For example, a recent example is at the company I worked at. We keep finding percipitates in the polyethylene glycol samples, and our QC guy insists on rejecting it and turning it to the supplier; we can’t take a sample that’s obviously dirty can we? Everyone agreed with him. He was a mere BS. The issue was, if we did that, it would take us 2 months to get a new shipment and we can’t wait for that. My PHD manager takes 1 look at it and says “keep it”. Why? Everyone disagreed. He explained: QC samples are rarely taken from the bottom of the container. Instead, they’re taken where they’re most convenient - near the surface. If there was truly percipitates inside the polyethylene glycol, they would have settled to the bottom during transit and wouldn’t even be there in the QC samples for us to see. Thus, it must be our contamination that caused it. </p>
<p>Not ONE BS holder thought of this extremely obvious phenomenon. Further tests determined it was indeed true, and dust within our warehouse was the issue.</p>