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CMV: People with a PhD in an unrelated field shouldn't be allowed to introduce themselves as "Dr." when presenting medical facts

This comes directly from something I saw earlier about somebody complaining about COVID etc., I'm all for the vaccination so as you can imagine when I hear somebody introduced as "Dr. \[surname\]" with a different opinion to me, it could imply that he actually knows what he's talking about.

No. A tiny bit of research shows that he has a PhD in *theology*, this was never specified, yet I see the same video circulating quite a bit around the internet (between anti-vaxxers) because he was called "Dr.", anybody that doesn't do research would therefore assume that he has some sort of medical or at least scientific background which is not the case.

I don't disagree with people being *allowed* to introduce themselves as "Dr." because a PhD does take a long time and it is a big thing etc. but it's very immoral

EDIT: When I refer to a "doctor" in this post I mean a licensed physician/MD, I've said "person with a PhD" any other time, I'm aware that they're both considered "doctors" by definition.
gpt
There are synergy benefits for Dr. of biology to comment on medical issues or Dr of sociology commenting on social effects of medical issues etc. Lot of doctors (and their related scientific disciplines including theology) have lot import things to say about Covid.