I, B.S., think that the overuse of academic titles in this article makes it very hard to read. Really, how medieval! It's not like the titles confer any extra

I, B.S., think that the overuse of academic titles in this article makes it very hard to read. Really, how medieval! It's not like the titles confer any extra knowledge to me, the uninitiated, yet interested reader. Does it matter that one of them has an MD and a PhD? It seems like those British military leaders of the first World War, General Sir Douglas Haig, Jethro Lord Walrustitty, or some such.