This week's Timebombs

Had an applicant at our organization recently with the Trifecta!

Bachelors - Belford University
MBA - Redding University
Doctorate - Redding University

Also a person "working on" their KWU "doctorate". In many ways, that is better lie than saying you actually have the doctorate, since most won't verify a degree in progress.

Gotta run, "working" on my Nobel Prize

 

How long did it take for the applicant to "earn" these prestigious credentials?

 

Here's another, rather amusing time bomb.

Reading a Nov. 27 2006 Newsweek in the doctor's office, I learned (p. 9) about wildly popular health guru T. S. Wiley, whose work is featured in Suzanne Somer's new bestseller, "Ageless."

T. S. Wiley is identified as an "anthropologist focusing on evolutionary biology and environmental endocrinology in molecular medicine and genetics." But her only claimed degree is a Bachelor's in anthropology . . . and it turns out that she doesn't even have that.

Asked by Newsweek for a copy of her diploma, she replied, "I live in a 23-room house.... I don't know how long it would take to find it. Could you just say that I don't have a degree and leave it like that."

Later, defending the notion that great scientific advances can be made by people without degrees, she said, "A hundred years ago, it was a patent clerk who came up with a breakthrough on relativity and he didn't have credentials either." As Newsweek is quick to point out, Albert Einstein had a doctorate.

 

Actually Bruce, pretty believable. For candidate #1, normal time for a bachelors, 2 years for the MBA, and the PhD was 4-5 years. Nothing that would jump out as suspicious.

The KWU one has had the Phd in progress for sometime tho.

 

Well, maybe he backdated all of his degrees.

 

A very cost effective option for only $90 at Rochville University if I recall correctly.

 

Call me a cynic, but I don't think he waited 5 years after getting his fake MBA to mail the check for his fake doctorate.

 

How do we GET people like this?

Sorry for coming late to this party, but I don't think Wiley is the only perpetrator of such behavior.

From her Web bio:

1. She attended, but did not graduate, after five years of undergraduate study?
2. What was she doing in the 21 years from 1975 to 1996 before her first "Private Tutorial"?
3. What is a "Private Tutorial? (How very Socratic!)
4. How does one with 20+ year old undergraduate credits get to be second author on biomedical research?

On a smaller scale, she reminds me of this guy [http://www.empoweringprograms.com/]
At least he DOES have a Bachelor's degree but has made a regional name for himself cribbing the work of others in a couple of self-published "books."

Tell me again, why did I (actually) go to graduate school?