Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: Is that really a fake PhD? I thought it was an honorary doctorate for his > biofuel powerplant.
Ah, that may explain it. Perhaps he has two honorary PhDs, one for the biofuel, and one from the diploma mill. Perhaps he thought I was talking about the other one. I do not know why he lists the California diploma mill degree. There is probably a reason. My point is that it is probably not a nefarious reason; it is probably weird. He reminds me of a person living deep in the countryside in a cabin. You find some peculiar arrangement of rocks piled around the well, or some inexplicable 80-year-old farm machine. You ask "what's that for?" or "why do you do it that way?" With all the goodwill in the world, they explain and explain. The more you hear the more confused you become. This is even more the case when they speak English as a second language, or -- as has happened to me -- they are speaking a back-country 200-year-old dialect of Japanese and I would have difficulty following the discussion in standard Japanese. Don't forget that Rossi speaks English as a second language. That probably explains much of the confusion engendered by his blog. I can just imagine how it would look if I posted dozens of messages in Japanese without bothering to edit them or have a native speaker vet them. - Jed
