UK Official: PhD in ‘Essential Oils’ or ‘Natural Toiletries’ = ‘a Scientist’
3rd February 2011
I am not making this up.
The Advertising Standards Authority – in these benighted short-attention-span days, perhaps one of the most important guardians of the English language – has described the fields of “Natural Preservatives in toiletries” and “Essential Oils” as being “traditional scientific disciplines” and ruled that people qualified in these areas may fairly be described as “scientists”.