diploma mills

Education scams are a growing problem in the U.S. Everywhere you look, there's a new "university", or "institute" sprouting up and offering worthless, unaccredited degrees for a huge price. The most infamous of these right now is "Trump University", which is finally getting sued by the state...

I got inspired by another thread in this forum There are more than a million PHDs in America. But how many are from diploma mills? You know that when they interview 'experts' on talk shows, there are always PHDs around. Dr. So and So claims to have researched topic X and his words are taken for...

I finding it troubling that Amazon.com allows people without accredited doctorates to promote themselves as a "Dr." This gives a false legitmacy that these people are an authority on a subject like science. For example, Kent Hovind is listed as "Dr Kent Hovind" (here) at Amazon.com even though...