But it does give you the training to defend your ideas…no matter how stupid they may be. Even if it is in a field one is completely unqualified to speak about. Michael Shermer’s book "Why People Believe Weird Things’ has an entire chapter to PhD’s who are completely batshit crazy.
Hence we have mathematicians and engineers touting Creationism, chemists engaging in Holocaust denial, sociologists whose works get used to justify attacks on civil liberties of a class of people, and Divinities Studies experts making claims about pharmacology.
