[JoeFromSidney]

You reminded me of something. Years ago, at a conference (and after I had earned my own doctorate in mathematics), I met a guy who made a living as a ghost writer for PhD dissertations. They were always in some soft subject, not a hard science. I have no idea how many fraudulent PhDs are out there through this guy's work, but there must be quite a few. I'm always wary of people who have doctorates in some soft subject. Did they hire this guy, or someone like him? He told me that in one of his ghost-written dissertations, he had even used one of his earlier fakes as a reference. Thus there's now a chain of fraudulence.

[Calvin Locke]

Thus there's now a chain of fraudulence.

Lovely, but not unexpected.

At least it was soft subjects, and not say, weight-loading of airplane wings, or support pilings for skyscrapers.