(03-24-2012, 03:10 PM)ham Wrote:Quote:It doesn't change the fact that your work is not scholarly. That's fine, of course, but it doesn't qualify for the award of a degree--at any level. The question was whether or not the work you submitted for your degree was (a) scholarly--whether it submitted and accepted for publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, or (b) supervised--whether it was developed under the supervision of a doctoral advisor and/or committee.
Again: it is unlikely the chap who just published an hardocover series through some university press will seek any kind of degree-by-published-work.
Go figure.
In your words, the Harvard plagiarism scandal and the global warming fraud mean nothing because -after all- the pack said it was trifle after all.
I have seen as much tripe by university presses as i have on free blogs...and as much good stuff from free publishers as i have from seventy-to-ninetynine-cents-a-page topshelf presses.
Read the review portion of peer-review journals and often you'll see the pack members going at one another's throat hurling accusations of incompetence and political mischief in all directions while picking one another's work apart...work that came by that topshelf press at eighty cents a page and ought to have met certain standards to start with.
Last, while few or nobody reads stuff from free publishers, as many (few?) read stuff from topshelf presses at seventy cents per page for obvious reasons. I think 90% copies sold are sent either to mandatory recipients -journals, certain departments or scholars- for free, or bought by libraries subscribing to that press house.
You then buy it on abebooks as second-hand books a few years later for pennies: that's what it all boils down to.
Fine. No one is claiming a sort of superiority for the academic process. But if someone claims a degree, it ought to be the result of what it takes to earn such a designation. Take a different route--get a different outcome. But if one wants to claim a degree and style himself "doctor," one should go to a university and earn one, not some other guy's house. Simply put....
Process: non-academic
University: non-existent
Degree: fake
Title: self-awarded
It is unfortunate.
(03-24-2012, 11:56 AM)DR ANATIDAE Wrote: In the eyes of the vast majority my KU degree is far more legitimate than your Union degree - and was far more difficult to achieve. Many in the USA still proudly list their KU degrees and your demeaning comments about KU are another clear indication that you are quite out of touch with reality.
What is widely known is that your Union Institute degree was awarded after only a few months of very sub-standard 'research' and that it nearly brought an end to Union Institute - which was claimed by many to be a diploma-mill. (Do a Google on it!)
Unfortunately, producing said "majority" is a bit harder than claiming it exists.
"Knightsbridge University" is not recognized anywhere in the world as a university. It was just a guy selling degrees out of his house. There is no other "reality."
"Do a Google on it"? Truly? That's your analysis? Okay, let's do that, only with "Knightsbridge University." Ooh, that's not good.
The need to twist the argument so violently merely to argue for the legality of such behavior is remarkable. I'm sorry you do this.
(03-24-2012, 02:58 PM)Ben Johnson Wrote: What of the dozen or more English universities that award doctorates from published work? Our friend is obviously a xenophobic American and a bit of a wanker. I wonder if he craps on schools in black countries like the good doctor who got a PhD from 1/16 of a dissertation.
Yes, what of them? As I've posted, the process of earning a doctorate on the basis of published work is available at a number of recognized universities. Unfortunately, the process the poster followed was not that. Nor was it at a university. He has styled himself "doctor" on the basis of nothing.
Why not do it at a recognized university? The poster can't answer that. Instead, he bought a diploma from a guy selling them out of his house. The facts are never in dispute, not even by that poster. Actually, they come from him.