12-14-2012, 07:19 AM
I enjoyed the guides, made good reading, but Bear provided none of the expertise he pretended to have. What he provided was entertainment value. Unfortunately many took him to be the expert he pretended to be.
If he had just been wrong in the guides I could have just let it go and saw him as mostly a harmless huckster, but, he has gone the route of outing the very people who bought the guides and followed his (VERY SHAKY) ideas and opinions. Even now if he would recant and at least say that many people followed his advice and accept the blame for some of their less than good choices, I could let it go. He will not. He still claims to have never said that schools such as Kennedy Western were GOOD choices. Hell, I have the book where he listed KWU as a good school. He will damn me to hell and call me a liar every time I quote him. When I give, book-page-and a direct quote he disappears, but sure enough, when next he is challenged, back to I never said that. I guess he must go by the idea if he denies long enough some will believe.
John Bear presented unaccredited schools as good for many people. He listed hundreds of these schools, some very small. Many of the small DL unaccredited schools gave a good effort and were not mills. Bear now calls them all mills or little better. The man is pond scum.
If he had just been wrong in the guides I could have just let it go and saw him as mostly a harmless huckster, but, he has gone the route of outing the very people who bought the guides and followed his (VERY SHAKY) ideas and opinions. Even now if he would recant and at least say that many people followed his advice and accept the blame for some of their less than good choices, I could let it go. He will not. He still claims to have never said that schools such as Kennedy Western were GOOD choices. Hell, I have the book where he listed KWU as a good school. He will damn me to hell and call me a liar every time I quote him. When I give, book-page-and a direct quote he disappears, but sure enough, when next he is challenged, back to I never said that. I guess he must go by the idea if he denies long enough some will believe.
John Bear presented unaccredited schools as good for many people. He listed hundreds of these schools, some very small. Many of the small DL unaccredited schools gave a good effort and were not mills. Bear now calls them all mills or little better. The man is pond scum.