> Instead, they repeatedly suggested that a scientific criticism of a published paper had no place in a dissertation
Why not a) finish the dissertation as soon as humanly possible, and b) now that you're bona fide, publish a separate paper disputing the famous paper which your dissertation didn't rely on?
Instead, it sounds like the student and committee advisors were a bad fit and spent most the time in a pissing contest.
Why not a) finish the dissertation as soon as humanly possible, and b) now that you're bona fide, publish a separate paper disputing the famous paper which your dissertation didn't rely on?
Instead, it sounds like the student and committee advisors were a bad fit and spent most the time in a pissing contest.