… is a classic disorder among degree fraudsters.
UD‘s been saying for years that if you want to get by with a diploma mill degree or just a degree you made up out of your head, you need to keep your sheepskin stats low.
UD understands it’s tempting, as long as you’re manufacturing your own awards, to give yourself three or four or five. But the danger is that if anyone investigates you, all those PhDs will look odd.
Currently a lad of 31, Jason Walker “taught three undergraduate courses, as well as one graduate course” in some medical subject or other at the University of Victoria. This was in 2006, so he was what? 27? But already at 27 he had ” two or three doctorates in forensic and behavioural sciences and medical epidemiology.” These and earlier degrees were from a variety of schools:
Among the academic institutions Walker has claimed to have studied at are the University of Victoria, the University of Calgary, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, Yale University and Smith College.
Smith College is an all-women liberal arts institution in Massachusetts.
I guess he liked the anonymity of the name Smith.
Anyway, Walker recently gave expert advice in some child custody thing in Canada, and someone in some office checked up on him, and now he’s in deep Vancouverian doodoo.
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Update:
… [P]olice became suspicious about his academic background when someone looked closely at a University of Toronto degree on his office wall, spokeswoman Sgt. Julie Fast said.
“It says it’s a Ph.D. in ‘philiosthy.’ That is how it’s spelled,” she said…
UD says philiosthy is a variant of philioque, itself a variant of filioque. This was a theology degree.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:35PM
> I guess he liked the anonymity of the name Smith.
Maybe he wore a burqa the whole time he was there and they didn’t know.
January 7th, 2010 at 3:27PM
Nice use of the term disorder, Margaret. Are we ready to nominate EDI for inclusion in the new psychiatry classification DSM-V? Go for it!