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Is a PhD like a HT bus?

Three weeks of being ill with some vague virus that has seen me hover between work and home trying to shake a rather persistent bug has seen some good. I have finally translated Til Kildrene! by Sebastian  Olden-Jørgensen  into English from Danish with the help of translating software, and when that doesn't seem to make sense a Danish dictionary.  I wanted to read what  Olden-Jørgensen  was presenting to his audience about source criticism and the use of artefacts. All I could find was wikipedia references from what looked like the same original source. In the Epilogue (page 84) I found this gem that I think relates not just to scientific research also to my PhD. I have taken a few stop-offs on the journey to explore other interesting research, and have at times been gripped by the feeling 'I may be on wrong bus' or worse, 'I shouldn't have got on!' Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy the journey. A scientifi