Clever Cat

The Pennsylvania Attorney General (AG) pulled off a sting that exposed a diploma mill being run in Texas.

While students struggle for years to complete a real degree, the Trinity Southern University was handing them out to anyone who could come up with their asking price. When they issued a Bachelors degree in Business Administration to a cat that was owned by one of the AG's staff members, the AG had the evidence to sue the university's owners.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. People exposing the fraud within the education system have arranged to have degrees, diplomas and doctorates for all sorts of animals in order to show up these scams. Membership to various organisations is also dependent solely on paying the membership fees.

Be wary of letters that follow a name and what memberships are claimed by someone claiming to be an expert, they may turn out to mean nothing at all. Also check to see if the qualifications are applicable to the subject where the expertise is claimed. I found that a "Dr." who was trying to convince me about the effectiveness of homeopathy was not a medical doctor, but had a PhD studying discrimination within the disabled community.

"There is only one truth. How we interpret that truth is called belief."
"The presence of belief, does not indicate the existence of truth."