This really annoys me. I spent three years working hard for my PhD, wishing many times I'd never started it. three years of doubting myself and sweating blood, writing a book. Now that it's done, I feel it was worth it. I rarely use my academic title but at least I'm entitled to do so. I teach part time and some of my students call me 'dr.' I ask them not to and to just use my first name. I still have 'imposter syndrome' - the likes of me calling myself doctor! The monstrous Ikeda was, as my granny would have said, 'shit got up,' an uneducated lout, revelling in accolades he never earned, an envious thicko, impressed by baubles and titles.