(02-26-2012, 02:37 PM)DR ANATIDAE Wrote: Stop dreaming Ham.
What JB did was just as bad as or possibly worse than the crimes committed by Frank Abagnale; particularly with his work with the London Institute of Applied Research and Millard Fillmore.
Please read what the UK's Institute of Directors had to say about John Bear in 1974!
Yes, selling fake degrees from one's home can be deemed inappropriate, especially if it wasn't an attempt at a silly joke or a harmless fundraising program. (Still a bad idea.)
How might it look for someone to buy a fake degree from an absolutely unrecognized business pretending to be a university, then do it again with another--this one run from someone's house?
Sellers of fake degrees are bad, and even if one's motives are innocent, it is really a bad idea. The same goes for purchasers of those fake degrees. Perhaps some do it from simple innocence combined with ignorance. But what happens after they're found out and know what they've done? Doesn't that make them villains (and co-conspirators in fraud) instead of victims if they continue to make their fraudulent claims?
(03-06-2012, 09:13 AM)jamesc1 Wrote: The evil of Bear, to me, is that he now is willing to trash and insult people who did exactly what he advised. He didn't just change his mind. We in fact don't really know what he truly believed then or now. I would't believe him now if he told me it was raining.
We don't? I thought we have 16 editions of his book over the course of more than two decades. Certainly one can discern what the man thought then and what he thinks now. And certainly those thoughts have changed, adjusting to changing conditions over the decades. I would hope so, anyway.
(02-10-2012, 07:20 AM)jamesc1 Wrote: Yep, the diss was a good one. Neil was nice enough to send me a copy and it was certainly first rate, well worthy of a doctorate.
Do you know where the dissertation was published as such? I mean, where was it accepted as a dissertation? I can't seem to find it anywhere. I suspect Knightsbridge didn't have the ability to submit its graduates' dissertations for publication.
A key tenet to the validity of a degree program and school at the doctoral level is that the work of its faculty and staff are accepted into the academic literature in order to make their contributions to it. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
Also, I note your comment about the "diss" being worthy of a doctorate. Do you happen to hold a doctorate in this person's field? Or one at all? I'm just wondering where you draw your expertise in such matters, especially since the original thesis (not "diss") was not accepted and published as one. It would be helpful to understand your credentials in this matter. (And since you use a pseudonym on this board, please feel free to hold back any personally identifying information.)
Cheers!
