Rashad Richey - Academic Fraud?

I found the two hour Johhnie Walker Dread video on Richey, outlining much of what was shared on the website: https://www.youtube.com/live/ERRPvHPYWSE?si=dLyiK7SbkiftAHEq

 

He doesn't matter. What he does doesn't matter. He's fooling only the gullible and they don't matter, either.

I get the macabre nature of hunting down these types and exposing them, but it doesn't change anything. While this person's ruse is certainly more elaborate than most, with many more layers, it is still just a ruse. I get the curiosity, but the pursuit of such things could be deemed actionable. And for what? To expose such an obvious fraud? Meh.

 

True. Just like degree mills. I used to think that when a mill-meister was sent to jail, that would be a deterrent to others. It isn't. The next one just learns not to make the same mistake that sent the jailbird to prison. Doesn't change anything. Some of these people manage to "create" more fake universities from their cell - e.g. James Kirk / McPherson (jailed) and his wife, Natalie Handy.

"After he went to prison his wife, Natalie Handy, opened Edison University, an unaccredited distance education institution operated from a rented mail box at a Mail Boxes Etc. in Honolulu.[6] Edison later used the name Acton University.[8]"

From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirk_diploma_mills

 

"Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey" has over a million subscribers. The Young Turks Network (the host) has over 5 million subscribers on YouTube. The politically progressive network is known for having clout with a millennial progressive audience. And we’re just talking about one aspect of Richey’s much more extensive activity involvement. I’d say that he matters. Do most people care about his credentials? Probably not, as most people do not look up the credentials of their favorite political commentators.

MasterChief pointed out that he was surprised to learn how Richey inflated his academic credentials, being someone who used to hold his commentary in high regard. So it does not appear that he’s only fooling the gullible. The aim of the investigation could be much more modest than some grand-scale change.

 

Wholeheartedly agree with you, Tadj. This isn't your average diploma mill Doctorate holder, but someone who built their lucrative public profile as an academic that was fraudulently built. It's clear to me others want to expose Richey for what he is. I'm satisfied that when potential students use their favorite search engine for "St. Magnus University of Science & Research" - they will land on DegreeInfo and see the school as a diploma mill and its owner as a fraud. I agree with Rich that it in the end, Richey's elaborate ruse and his followers don't affect my life - they don't matter. Me beating a dead horse? Perhaps.

 

But he does hold at least one real doctoral degree correct? He has a Ed.d?

 

Part 2 of the investigation:

https://fakephdinvestigator.substack.com/p/rashad-richey-part-2-the-progressive

The entry points to his doctoral work at Universidad Azteca, which has been published here: https://www.ijsr.net/archive/v13i3/SR24223170452.pdf

As I predicted, it's mostly concerned with hypocrisy.

 

This whole thing is absolutely nonsense. He is being criticized for defending a Muslim family? Also, at the end of the day he has a doctoral degree that is legit. He is a doctor. He can use that title even if you hate his work, even if you have a personal issue with his race, or you don't like his dissertation, he is a doctor.

 

No.

The fact that he holds this degree wasn't disputed at any point during the investigation on the external website.

He earned all kinds of other degrees besides the one that you have mentioned. He was mainly criticized for claiming to be a physicist, starting his own controversial university, hosting a progressive program where he epouses radically progressive viewpoints and simultanously publishing conservative-supporting research and being involved with a network of self-promoting fake news sites. None of these things concern his race, so I am not sure why you brought this issue up.

 

Dr. Richie's affiliation with TYT is a pretty new development. The commentary that he gives now is the same commentary he was giving before becoming affiliated with TYT. I know this because I've been watching him off-and-on for a few years and was even subscribed to his YouTube channel at one time.

I find it really weird that reporting on matters of injustice is considered "radically progressive" and in contradiction to conservatism. Maybe in the white community it is, but not in the AA community. We have traditionally been socially and religiously conservative and "radically progressive" in matters of social justice. One can be both; they're not mutually exclusive.

That said, I'm disappointed in him because he didn't need to inflate his educational credentials. He has a legitimate doctorate degree, and could have used it to gain admission to graduate programs in the other academic areas he was interested in (provided he had the needed prerequisites). At most universities, if you already hold a masters or doctorate degree you get automatic acceptance to other graduate degree programs. There's no reason he had to go the degree mill route.

 

There are ways in which these stances can be combined. I would not dispute that. And there is no "white community." However, I am not going to explore that issue further due to a promise that I've made regarding my engagement in political discussions on this board.

 

I didn't really consider this a political discussion, but OK. And, my apologies for assuming there was a white community.

 

Ritchey's diploma mill degrees, associates, mill universities, etc. has turned into a morbid curiosity. Dr. Elizabeth Bik posted on X, from the Science Integrity Digest, about his dissertation regarding his cure for Alzheimer's disease. His critics are increasing.

 

Right - he didn't need to, but he thought he also didn't need to waste valuable time earning them, either. He wanted them RIGHT NOW - just like he was still four years old.

No wonder. He has made some horrible mistakes - and he's going down in flames. I think Richey might well have a textbook case of Grandiose Delusions, as described below.

"Grandiose delusions (GDs), also known as delusions of grandeur or expansive delusions,[1] are a subtype of delusion characterized by extraordinary belief that one is famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful. Grandiose delusions often have a religious, science fictional, or supernatural theme. Examples include the extraordinary belief that one is a deity or celebrity, or that one possesses extraordinary talents, accomplishments, or superpowers."

From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions#Theories_and_mechanisms

MUCH Better that Richey be discredited, than desperate people turn to him for "help" and risk getting harmed by advice or treatment he's not qualified to give. I say the same for all the other frauds and mountebanks out there. This is pure-D evil. I have no patience with such people.

 

It's a wonder he hasn't already founded his own degree-mill. That's where the money is, Rashad!

 

HE DID.

I posted this earlier:

St. Magnus University of Science & Research is a Florida based university incorporated by Richey located in a shopping plaza. St Magnus' holds scummy accreditations previously discussed in this thread.

Registration Info:
https://www.floridareg.com/company/N23000011798/st-magnus-university-of-science-research-inc

 

Thanks! I should try reading for comprehension, next time! I went by it too fast - I thought it was just another mill he claimed degrees from.

"Richey's Got a Brand New Bag!" - Apologies to the late James Brown. A great performer.

 

Is that a new whiskey variety, popular in Jamaica?

 

Interestingly, he seems to have purchased a law degree from a university in Haiti through the illustrious His Serene Highness and Beatitude Professor Dr. Dr. Dr. Mar Edmundus, Prince-Abbot of San Luigi, Patriarch-Catholicos of the West, rightful Tzar of Bielarus etc. etc. etc. (aka John Kersey). I wonder if this kind of a degree can be used to get a positive evaluation from an unwitting FCE firm and used in US.

 

Perhaps - from a witless FCE firm, one that we all know of, on here. The one that will evaluate your Bratislava-issued Driver's Licence as equivalent to an RA Master's. They'll even issue you a genuine, printed-in-US degree-looking paper to go with it.