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Old 27-March-2008, 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Celestial Mechanic View Post
Bad example, at least for the point you're trying to make. This "patent office clerk" already had a degree (or its equivalent) from a university. In today's employment climate he probably would not have been hired on grounds of "overqualification".
Has there ever been a case where someone presented an original idea on bautforum.com that later made its way to a peer reviewed journal, or at least to a poster presentation at some conference somewhere?
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