I saw this tweet this morning as Megyn Kelly was getting dragged on Twitter. As much as I enjoy watching someone getting bodied in real time, I am confident she was performing for her base. She (and other political personas) knows her audience knows less about whatever topic they've decided to wade into and have a knee-jerk reaction. They know how to sell their performance art to the right person.
Many years ago I had my PhD diploma framed. When it was finished, the person told me how I was living the life she wanted - she always wanted to major in Philosophy. I felt bad explaining that a Doctor of Philosophy was the long way of saying PhD and that my doctorate was actually in Anthropology.
When Stephen Hawking briefly branched out into hip-hop, one of his songs pointed out that Dr. Dre didn't have a Ph.D. Warning - MC Hawking's lyrics are NSFW.
I was waiting for that one, Owner of greatest sports achievement (throwing a no-hitter) while tripping balls.
Still wondering if Megyn Kelly is truly that ignorant, or she knows the history how physicians pilfered the term. Let's ... Albany Law School? Better than Michael Cohen's law school, but nevertheless I will guess the former.