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10 High-Profile People Whose Degrees Were Revoked

These notable figures saw their degrees stripped for plagiarism or other crimes.

May 2, 2012 RSS Feed Print
Universities can revoke degrees if they discover cheating or other irregularities.

Universities can revoke degrees if they discover cheating or other irregularities.

[Check out how one student duped Harvard and Stanford Universities.] 

9. Résumé racketeer: Serkan Anilir, a Turkish national, saw his doctorate from University of Tokyo revoked for plagiarism and lying on his résumé, the Daily Yomiuri reported in 2010. "This is the first time in the history of the University of Tokyo, this country's most prestigious university, that a doctorate has been rescinded," according to the report, which referred to Anilir as "a distinguished researcher ... extensively covered in the mass media." 

10. Moscow has a cow: A "silly experiment" cost Anna Gomberg her degree of veterinary science, as The Sydney Morning Herald reported in 1952. Gomberg allegedly deprived a cow of water for nine days, and treated the cow's udder with boiling water and turpentine to "determine the effect of electric shocks on the milk yield," according to the paper. After the Collegium of the Ministry of Agriculture revoked Gomberg's degree from the Moscow Veterinary Academy, it ordered that she "be dismissed from her Veterinary Institute post and assigned to 'work in production.'" 

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Today, I logged in XID that I once registered at the official site of Harvard University, but not activated.

Until then, I have cancelled it from the data.

It is issue of the university credibility!

As a result, I was deceived by the professors in school of law, business

JD and DBA to be given to me in 2011.

pepepe9999 12:28AM December 06, 2012

I have become aware of serious questions about two different degrees of two different people. The transgressions seem obvious, but the degrees were granted in he 1970s and 1980s from major state universities. Who investigates these things. All I know is what others have said and the lack of education acquired,which is obvious. If there were an investigation there would be many witnesses. The allegations is that tuition was paid degrees awarded but other people attended the classes. WHO DO I TURN TO? People say, that was in the past. Well, the concern arise due to their current shady dealings. Not the past at all. To make the current activity look intentional rather than just another case where they seem not to work and find great benefit while leaving a trail of destruction.

Mark of FL 9:14PM July 04, 2012

MLK was a genius. He, almost alone understood that a non violence movement would advance civil rights for all Americans further and faster than all the provoked violence, psychopathic taunting, public lynching had accomplished. What are you suggesting we do, rattle his bones. If we had the assassinated leader to address the issue I believe it would more thoroughly demote the education mafia than it would diminish his brave accomplishments. He stood alone, the FBI smeared him secretly. Blackmailed him to commit suicide. Why would he maintain incriminating evidence. It appears that Jim's collection of papers led to this charge. It is an old trick. A public figure here in Tampa had to spend a million dollars from his own pocket to establish that the charges were trumped up. There was no evidence in the final analysis. After all, these professors have an odd sense of using libraries. As a famous historian said after publication of his heavily researched background of personal experiences in WWII, he made notes, lots of notes. Sometimes he put notes in his note books that did not have quotes. In every case he had recognized the works. There was a note he made about the sky somewhere. The description had been used earlier. There are no ideas, or so few new ideas by so few people that is very hard to understand where anyone has the nerve to claim any thought as his own. Disney claims it own the rights to all the Grimm Fairytales he turned into cartoons. how is Snowwhite his to claim, or Cinderella, these classics were a century old before Disney was born. When we outlaw library research we set the world back. The loss of the library at Alexandria is said to have brought on the Dark Ages where people marveled at ancient roads bridges, water works, harbors, public buildings but had no earthly idea how it was accomplished for a thousand years. The world is full of nut jobs. Tell me, do you imagine you might have a right wing race baiting attitude? How often have you gone to a library?

Mark Gibbons of FL 9:02PM July 04, 2012

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