08-18-2008, 09:52 PM
Gollin has been paying a heavy price, not because he is after diploma mills, but because of the obsessive and unhealthy way he's been handling it.
The first page results of a Google search on his name include a number of hits entitled "George Gollin Academic Fraud", etc. Some of his "supporters" on other forums may claim that Gollin has a solid reputation and nobody who counts would take any notice of such obvious slander. Well, unfortunately for Gollin we all know and he knows that this is not so. Even people who know him well, including colleagues, friends, family and relatives will wonder what is wrong. They will probably never mention anything to him, but they may be discussing it among themselves. It would be even worse with people who don't know him personally. Let's not forget the power sayings such as, "There's no smoke without a fire" have in shaping people's perceptions of a situation or an individual.
The first page results of a Google search on his name include a number of hits entitled "George Gollin Academic Fraud", etc. Some of his "supporters" on other forums may claim that Gollin has a solid reputation and nobody who counts would take any notice of such obvious slander. Well, unfortunately for Gollin we all know and he knows that this is not so. Even people who know him well, including colleagues, friends, family and relatives will wonder what is wrong. They will probably never mention anything to him, but they may be discussing it among themselves. It would be even worse with people who don't know him personally. Let's not forget the power sayings such as, "There's no smoke without a fire" have in shaping people's perceptions of a situation or an individual.