You need to be the hardest of hard core activists and glory-mongers to end up as the named plaintiff in a judicial activist lawsuit aiming at striking down abortion laws:
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Hospitals in Indiana, according to Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an OB-GYN currently employed with IU Health who provides care at its associated hospitals and clinics, administer deep sedation to women receiving second-trimester abortions. [Id. at 39:8-10].
Dr. Bernard testified that she would refer her patients in need of first-trimester abortion services to an APC, if she were legally permitted to do so. [Id. at 37:1-20].
Dr. Bernard testified that she encounters at least one patient a month whom she must refer out of state for second-trimester services. [Id. at 34:20-22].
And, while Dr. Bernard testified that she would refer patients to APCs for first-trimester aspiration abortion, no other physician performing abortions at Indiana's licensed clinics testified that they would be willing to delegate aspiration abortion procedures to an APC. Thus, the impact of this physician-only law on access to aspiration abortion services has not been shown.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=18149233838674824263
The whole liberal media breathlessly repeated this woman's claim that:
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Indianapolis, received a call last Monday, three days after the Court's ruling, from a child abuse doctor in Ohio who had a 10-year-old girl in their office who was six weeks and three days pregnant, and therefore ineligible to receive an abortion in the state, according to a report from The Indianapolis Star.
SHE WOULD NOT EVEN NAME THE DOCTOR WHO SUPPOSEDLY GAVE HER THE REFERRAL, so that there would be no way to corroborate her story. She has also gone full incognito mode after her false story blew up across the national news with no verification or fact checking, despite the fact that she's a gigantic attention whore and would LOVE to be the face of abortion rights if her story had been true, she's gone full incognito mode and deleted her personal website and her social media. The only reason she would do this is if her story was a lie and she didn't want to face difficult questions that might expose it as such.
Realistically it likely varies enormously by field. For example, a PhD in English or education probably doesn't say much at all about intelligence. A bachelors or masters in some STEM field probably means more. And if you have a PhD in particle physics you're probably more than one standard deviation above the norm.
The stem field thing isn’t true anymore. They’re a bunch of ideologues faking all their papers for government money now too.
Not saying there aren't plenty of cases where that's a thing, but when I got my STEM degrees (5 years ago), the coursework was still quite rigorous and wasn't really corrupted in any way. And I'm hyper sensitive to that stuff.
I think you're largely referring to an abundance of corruption and plenty of unscrupulous people taking advantage of a shitty incentive structure to enrich themselves. The way I see it, this is indeed a real thing but can and does coexist with the notion that a STEM degree says a lot more about one's intelligence than an English degree.