If a person has a PhD in area X, and suddenly, giving comments to a candidate that is in a completely different field, Y, such as; "this is not Y!"; is the person allowed/qualified to do that?
I was this in this room where this panel member said the exact same thing as the above and that panel member is not even in the field! How so that the person can give such judgement?
(The person's job at the time was to check the writing aspect of the thesis)
Any opinions?