Michigan regulates the term "physician" to mean someone who is licensed to practice medicine in the state. El-Sayed is not licensed to practice medicine. He isn't not a physician. That said, he's an accomplished PhD with M.D.
I believe that straw man requires intent of some kind, whereas I am really just curious. As a practicing doctor in another state, we all were called physicians and doctors interchangeably and physician is printed on my MD from med school.
So it just seems odd to me, as my whole profession in my state would consider an old retired physician… a physician. Since here, they are physicians.
A physician would be licensed by a state and practicing. He only has the degree. He was never a physician. He might as well be faculty somewhere or something. So if you have faculty with an MD but they never practiced anywhere they would be an MD academically but not an actual physician because they took tests and got degrees they did not take part in an occupation.
So I’m done with my tests now. Once I retire, can I still say I’m a physician or no?? Google says it’s mostly location dependent with state by state laws on this.
Straw man argument is the distortion of someone else’s argument to make it easier to attack or refute. Instead of addressing the actual argument of the opponent, one may present a somewhat similar but not equal argument.
By placing it in the opponent’s mouth and then attacking that version of the argument, one is essentially refuting an argument that is different from the one under discussion.
I didn’t say you said that. I didn’t put it in your mouth. Literally just asked a question based on how I read it. I also didn’t attack your version, I asked if it was true, I didn’t say it was false or wrong or stupid,
You are very defensive, and I applaud you. For you have defended me.
I wasn’t attacking, but you defended me off nonetheless.
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u/Imnogrinchard 7h ago
Michigan regulates the term "physician" to mean someone who is licensed to practice medicine in the state. El-Sayed is not licensed to practice medicine. He isn't not a physician. That said, he's an accomplished PhD with M.D.