(tip o’ the hat to Pharyngula)
Kent Hovind, a godbag whackjob currently doing 10 years in the federal resort in Edgefield, South Carolina, for tax-related mopery-dopery, wrote a doctoral dissertation.
No, really.
He wrote a dissertation that was accepted by Patriot University, where “Dr.” Hovind got himself diploma-mill master’s and doctor’s “degrees”. The dissertation puts forth Hovind’s beliefs (and he calls them beliefs) that the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Here is an image of the beginning of the first page:
Heart-burning. Touched. Completely inappropriate. Ungrammatical. Written at a junior-high-school level of composition. No footnotes. No endnotes. Full of typos. Citations on the level of:
Whew! Back-breaking research and top-notch sources. Not.
“Dr.” Hovind also built Dinosaur Adventure Land (closed now), and he claims that the “New World Order” is being plotted by, among others, Jane Fonda and the British royal family.
Gee, I wondered what Prince Charles was doing to keep busy while waiting for his mum to make a king out of him. Another mystery cleared up!
I want a doctorate from a diploma mill!