Tom Cruise got parodied on the season finale of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Why is he the only celebrity who is supposed to have a Ph.D. in a subject to have an opinion about it? I’d like to see an L&O episode mocking Bono’s views on economic development, but I won’t hold my breath.
If you saw the finale, I would have testified for prosecution, not the defense.
May 21 2006
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May 20 2006
Alex Tabarrok writes On its face, price gouging is a peculiar explanation for recent increases in insurance premiums. Is greed new to the world? Were insurance companies followers of Mother Teresa just a few years ago? If greed and gouging are the explanations for rising premiums, why did the St. Paul group -- one of ...
May 18 2006
Tom Cruise got parodied on the season finale of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Why is he the only celebrity who is supposed to have a Ph.D. in a subject to have an opinion about it? I'd like to see an L&O episode mocking Bono's views on economic development, but I won't hold my breath. If you saw the final...
READER COMMENTS
Student
May 19 2006 at 12:18pm
You mean like Philosophy, Byran? Zing!!!
I wonder when your L&O episode is comming up.
que: “No, wait, that’s different…”
*roll*
Dave Meleney
May 19 2006 at 2:55pm
Wow! the article you link to: “The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness” applies reams of common sense to the most contentious areas of Szasz’s scholarship. Any chance you’ll do a book with him?
James
May 20 2006 at 12:05am
Student: I believe Bryan’s point isn’t that one needs or doesn’t need a doctorate to be credible. It’s that one should be consistent in applying either the stricter or the more lenient standard. That is, it’s inconsistent to fault Cruise for speaking on psychology without a doctorate AND to not fault Bono for speaking on development economics without a doctorate.
Paul McLellan
May 20 2006 at 11:08am
It’s not prime-time TV, but see Bono get mcoked here in (of all places) the left-wing Guardian in the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1778683,00.html
Ray
May 20 2006 at 11:41am
Perhaps if Cruise were to campaign for public approval as Bono does. . .
FC
May 20 2006 at 11:44am
All the Law & Order shows tend to reflect the worldview of its producers and writers. Psychotherapy has been popular in showbiz circles for many decades. (David O. Selznick’s own experience as an analysand led him to make “Spellbound.”)
When the detectives and prosecutors on a L&O show can’t figure out a suspect or witness, they usually call a forensic psychologist who then provides a quick, accurate and confident analysis.
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