@Platapus
That's pi$$ing (sorry Steve, it had to be
) me off to no end as well. Most people who have no academic degree have no idea what it means to write a thesis or some other paper using scientific standards. That's nothing you do in the meantime when you feel like it! It is really hard work and when some clown just comes by and does a copy paste job and the general population doesn't seem to care then this is really frustrating for everyone with an honest degree (no, I'm no doctor, just a Diplomkaufmann / business graduate). Another nice side effect is that now everyone assumes that every academic is working like that and that it hardly takes any effort or skill to get a degree.
