When people with not much credentials can become politicians, and leader of countries, we scrutinize people with...

When people with not much credentials can become politicians, and leader of countries, we scrutinize people with relevant educational credentials, but without relevant licensing for doing research that too to protect oneself in a world where self governance has become the essence to protect oneself.. Moreover, there are all kinds of information out there on the web revolving around research, and scrutinizing this mathematical research work suggests the need for increased awareness among administrators on what is going on around the world (this is why hiring should not be based on buddy system, but revolves around real factors that matters). Moreover, licensing requirements vary around the world, and common law could supersede state laws. It is also interesting how state laws supersede in an ecommerce world, where a domain registered automatically provides an opportunity for global visibility. (More on this topic soon)

Coming to doing research, Benjamin Martin, who developed first set of eyesight glasses had no license, and was not an opthalmologist/optometrist. First set of bicycles were developed by inventors without any license. For that matter, licensing concept is a relatively a young concept on planet earth.

History about licensing coming soon.

My 2 tulips.
https://www.google.com/amp/reason.com/blog/2017/06/02/oregon-man-who-was-fined-for-doing-math/amp