Siouxsie Wiles and the PhD that she claims to have.
Or is it a DFool?
Siouxsie Wiles, all over New Zealand news media over the last 6 months or more for her supposed expertise on COVID-19, claims to have a PhD and at least once she's claimed that it is from Oxford, the implication of course being that it's from Oxford University. Doctorates from Oxford University are normally called a DPhil rather than PhD, or PHD as referred to on at least one of Siouxsie's copious social media or online biography pages. But there's no evidence of such a doctorate, whatever it is called, for example this database has no record of it;
And Siouxsie's Wikipedia page referenced this paper as her PhD thesis before I challenged it a few months ago (the Wikipedia link is to an archived version of her page).
Development of bespoke bioluminescent reporters with the potential for in situ deployment within a phenolic-remediating wastewater treatment system
That paper is only 10 pages long, it has three co-authors which would be very unusual for a thesis and no…
