Been where done what
I think I landed on the wrong planet! How can you ask me such a question when a few posts above you asked me these two questions.
1. Are you simply angry that some of your colleagues who you know are worse at writing research articles than you are able to turn in exceptional work?
2. That such people are likely to complete their dissertations with distinction and go on to take significant positions in their respective fields?
Been there done that; means I have worked with relatively high level researchers on a global basis and never once was I angry at them, but instead I was there to marvel and admire their hard work and how they are changing our world, envious yes, angry NO.
On Question 2. I have patents that benefit even you today, and I have also been an executive in a few companies two of which could easily be in the Fortune Five as in 1, 2, 3, , and 5. Therefore, my interests in advanced education has nothing to do with what you are inferring and I have no desire to hold any private or government position, my hands are full, as it is.
I have worked and sat in panels with researchers form top research universities, not just here in the States, but in Europe, Iran and China. (Don't believe what you hear on the news, scientists especially in the sciences are connected in ways that would make, some foreign policy claims as ridiculous as giving Al Gore a Nobel Peace Price for,... err, pollution?).
You ask: is my Dissertation is in the field of Fractional Statistics and Quantum Mechanics? It will be as soon as I complete my comprehensive exams. If you think you can be on my editing panel (Summer 2011), then I am sure we can talk. But somehow some of the back and forth here, quite honestly appear to be at a much lower scholarly level than I expect. However we are human. I am not a behavioral scientist, but seems that when people are shielded by the veil of anonymity their behavior can be unpredictable.
So "Been There Done That" I thought would answer your questions without you morphing into another Sir Arthur Doyle character, or the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes!