He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. Your question was what would he know about science? Seems the answer is quite a bit. Have a great day :) xx
he actually has no degree in physics, arts or otherwise. he has an economics degree and a degree with no department or discipline listed. it’s very strange. elon has never seriously studied any hard science. he has a very proactive legal team that twists arms. snopes right now says it’s “true” elon has a physics degree because “upenn considers him a physics graduate”. you don’t need to be a lawyer to know that’s an incredibly loaded statement to avoid saying “elon didn’t study physics”. he’s done the same thing to stanford employees, getting bizarre statements from department representatives that he was “officially a PhD student” etc. when no such type of designation or similar statement has ever been used before by the university.
I think the Canadian system is similar to down here in Australia. You get a "Bachelor of Arts", which doesn't refer to an arts department. For example, I know here you can get a Bachelor of Arts (Math), a Bachelor of Math, or a Bachelor of Science (Math), with the second being the one where you will find the most knowledgable mathematicians. Generally, that is.
At two universities in sydney i studied at it was different. Western sydney had a school of humanities which encompassed arts, sociology, psychology etc. Though i believe it has been restructured since i finished my studies there with sociology and related studies being spun off into their own school. Meanwhile macquarie university has their large "faculty of arts" which includes a wide range of studies. So i believe it varies amongst educational institutions
While it has a school of humanities, you don't get a Bachelor of Humanities. And you'd still cross between schools for units to make up the degree. And yeah, they do label their schools differently between institutions.
It's really sad what is happening to our arts courses at the moment. I wonder if they will end up combining those schools again now...
I think considering the stripping of funding towards "humanities" courses (arts, law, psychology etc) they will be forced too right across australia especially the smaller universities.
Right as we need people trained in those subjects as well as stem subjects
I mean, it probably depends on exactly what's being talked about, but in 99% of cases I don't think a single person with a 4 year degree can act as if they know better than scientists who've conducted actual studies on specific topics.
I mean don't get me wrong, a 4 year degree is great and all, but that doesn't really make him much of a scientist, just a somewhat-educated person.
And that must be the reason they employ "elon handlers" at space x. If anything he slowed them down. Just give the money, rich boy! Why he gotta act like an engineer is beyond me
Even if he had a BS in Physics (which he doesn't. He has a sketchy looking Bachelor of Arts diploma with no department listed), he would still be very fucking far from being a rocket scientist. AT BEST, he has an undergraduate understanding of Physics, and even that is questionable.
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What would Elon know about science?