Prof. V. should recognize that a Ph.D. confers a target, not a shield. What one flaunts, one must defend–not by an appeal to law, but by individual intellectual combat (preferably relying on jui-jitsu rather than nukes). Those who quake before students’ challenges rather than engaging them as allies in examining the value of those challenges merit no respect; however, they do not automatically deserve disrespect, having themselves obtained their imprimaturs, in some cases, from morons greater than themselves who demanded acquiesence to their idiocies before agreeing to confer upon their victims the mantle of Doctor Infallibilis.