Let me be the first RE guy to just come out and say it.
I apologize for steadfastly (is that even a word) arguing against SBR's credibility when it comes to his education. I will no longer protest his education or credentials.
While that one line, in that rticle, is hardly proof that he finished his education to the satisfaction of a PHD. Especially seing as the department of medical studies was not fuly founded at that school at that time. I do believe that he did complete higher formal education (for the day) and should be called doctor. I'll still call him SBR because its easier to type than Dr.SBR.
I am pretty entertained by this thread though. and it has given me some great lulz. Even you FE zealots must be giggling a bit when you post in a thread like this. To go from "(not a doctor)" to how he pionered modern cola and was a great unsung invetor/great mont of the 1800's is laughable. Do you guys even know how manny patents are given out for total failure inventions? whatever......
I do still think he was a fraud about many subjects, a confidence man, and dead wrong about everything in ENAG.
I am not above an apology and I was absent from the thread for the last couple days because I was no where near a computer. Again I apologize for claiming he was not formally educated. It turns out SBR was probably a Dr.SBR.