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"Lemming" <thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:56:09 GMT, "Bill Huffman" <bhuffma1@san.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"me@home.com" <jan.deinhard@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> >news:1131563304.371934.186430@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >> Bill Huffman wrote:
> >>
> >> > People claiming a degree from a real school that was never received
is
> >> > probably more common than Derek Smart's kind of academic fraud where
he
> >> > claims a degree that was apparently purchased from a diploma mill.
> >>
> >> Well, is it legal to purchase a degree in the US? I'm pretty sure it is
> >> illegal in germany. It is real fraud here. Not just an immoral act.
> >> Same with plagiarism.
> >
> >I don't think that it is illegal to purchase or print up a bogus diploma
> >anyplace in the USA. It is illegal to use a bogus degree to defraud
someone
> >anywhere in the USA. However, that is covered under the general
fraudulent
> >behavior laws, which are much more difficult to enforce. It is illegal to
> >use  unaccredited  degrees in about nine states. This number is growing.
For
> >example seven years ago it was illegal to use an unaccredited degree in
only
> >one state, Florida. The residental state of my favorite fraud, Derek.
>
> I'm thinking of starting a University in the USA specialising in
> Intelligent Design.  Two year course, run over two one-week semesters
> which abler students may, if they wish, combine into one year.  I
> might even offer a correspondence version if there is enough demand.
>
> Basically the syllabus will consist of teaching thee students to say
> "Stephen J Gould believed in Intelligent Design" without laughing.  I
> think it's a winner;  all my market research suggests that the kind of
> people who would want such a certificate are exactly the who would be
> prepared pay for it.

It sounds like a brilliant idea to me. I love it.

Perhaps you should also offer classes in a rather similar new study. This is
the theory that an intelligent being is changing scientific measurements to
make it appear that evolution might be real. This intelligent being is known
as the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

http://www.venganza.org/