On Wednesday 18 Jan 2012 10:40:42 am Biju Chacko wrote: > Imagine a person whose learned gastroenterology by reading doctor's > prescriptions claiming to be (and being feted by the media as) India's > leading expert in the subject.
It happens all the time, unfortunately. Popularity is based on ability to comunicate in addition to some karma, A lot ofpatients come pre loaded with dubious medical information from "experts" on the interent. It's part of the game. I always got the impression that "hacker" was considered by his peer group as a sort of upper caste of software techies that people would aspire for. But once you make a caste system official you can have false caste certificates. I hate to say this - but is there a hint of evny in some reactions to Shri Fadia? I mean "Armpit Fraudia"? The world is absolutely full of frauds. I recall a son of the Dirtector General of Health Servicces (DGHS) in India who was a lazy layabout even if he was a fun guy. Not a Rhodes scholar by any stretch of one's imagination. But he got a scholarship to go to the US as Indias "Best Outgoing Student" in a system where there is no way of picking India's best outgoing student. TV interviews and newspaper articles by "experts" are often full of rubbish, but it's the quality of the audience that shows up as much as the quality of the "expert". Who is TGH by the way? shiv
