The requirement for a formal degree or credentials has not always been necessary for scientific contribution; in the 19th century, many important scientists (Darwin, Faraday) were amateurs or worked outside the university system, and professionalization through credentialism has suppressed rather than enhanced genuine scientific inquiry.
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“It was a struggle in the 19th century a lot of scientists in Britain were either amateurs like Charles Darwin yeah they had an academic the Pharaoh day or you know Faraday was at the Royal Institution not in the university in a rather eccentric small institution”
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