> Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. > ... > He earned his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Chicago four yea

> Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day. > ... > He earned his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Chicago four years later ... returned to eastern Washington to take a closer look at the plateau and its scablands. Yep, just a high-school teacher. One who got a PhD in the field (in the days when PhDs weren't commonplace) and then went looking for the answer. One wonders how much of the rest of the article is 'helpfully embellished'.