Akashic University

No, it's not a typo, it's a new one, discovered whilst I was doing a search for Greenwich on Zoominfo

http://www.akashicuniversity.com

The actual hit was for Francesca McCartney. You may recall that she was the one who was going to resurrect Greenwich in California. Nonetheless, her Zoominfo information is interesting:

http://www.zoominfo.com/PeopleSearch/PersonDetail.asp?PersonID=113009818&pc=

I thought she got her PhD through Greenwich? Still, there is no reason to suggest that the Zoominfo is correct/ accrurate as it's automatically gathered, so it may have put the info in the wrong field. Nonetheless, all very interesting.

Cheers,

George

 

The BPPVE search page has never heard of it. Schools that don't award degrees and only offer avocational personal-interest courses don't have to be approved. I don't know if Akashic fits that description or not.

This is what jumped out at me:

Ms. Francesca McCartney

Research Director California Pacific Medical Center

The California Pacific Medical Center is a major hospital. In the 40's-50's period it was the Stanford Medical Center, before that moved to its fancy new facility in Palo Alto. Then it was Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center for many years, and finally it merged with SF Children's Hospital and Davies Medical Center to become California Pacific.

This woman their research director??? I don't think so...

http://www.cpmc.org/professionals/research/

Apparently CPMC has a research study going testing the efficacy of psychic healers and she's one of the healers.

 

In my considered opinion -- using ZoomInfo as a reference source would be akin to using a dartboard and a copy of the latest National Enquirer.

My own "profile" lists me as having worked at places I had published articles with, or that were simply mentioned in a biographical byline.

Since it ONLY allows you to change that information if you cough up your credit card (I don't have one) number, or if you can receive emails from a domain where IT thinks you "work" -- it's essentially impossible for me to correct the information that is in error.

If it can make all those misinterpretations of my own online profile -- it can do it with anyone. Thus, it's a crock of feck. Were I to see a ZoomInfo citation in a paper -- I'd print the paper out and burn it.

 

Zoominfo's resume on you, George, shows that you have a Ph.D. from Adelaide. I am pretty sure that this is not the case.

http://www.zoominfo.com/PeopleSearch/PersonDetail.asp?PersonID=704412325&pc=

As a prominent southern hemisphere scholar recently wrote, "[T]here is no reason to suggest that the Zoominfo is correct/ accrurate as it's automatically gathered, so it may have put the info in the wrong field. Nonetheless, all very interesting."

I agree with the first sentence, but I'm afraid I don't find it interesting, only annoying and cautionary.

 

Well, there we go then. I've got my PhD already, so why the hell am I fervently working away on some damn manuscript at the moment? It's quite amazing how mythology is created.

Cheers,

George