dr. John Bear: KEEPS IT "ETHICAL " with degree mill MILLARD FILLMORE

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Here dr. Bear lectures in the ominous article "dr. John Bear: keeping it ethical".

With great candor, John Bear explains:

It struck me that it was strange that Bob Hope could just buy his degree. Coincidentally, we kept encyclopedia volumes in the bathroom for general reading. That day I happened to open the F volume to Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States. Fillmore was morally opposed to honorary doctorates. As a lark, we created the Millard Fillmore Institute to send out fake diplomas to people we liked, such as writers or singers or others. Johnny Carson used to do a Millard Fillmore shtick on Fillmore's birthday. He found our fake diplomas, and displayed them on national TV. Soon, we received hundreds of requests for these novelty diplomas. Soon thereafter, we heard from several attorneys general who indicated that there were people who were passing our diplomas off as legitimate. We immediately stopped the Millard Fillmore Institute, but my purpose in life had been set.

but the journalist doesn't laugh in his face; he doesn't invoke the thunder of moral justice upon dr. John Bear; he doesn't phone employers, the FBI or INTERPOL.
Instead, John Bear can freely be interviewed as moral authority on "keeping things ethical", while disclosing one of the many questionable "schools" (=degree mills in his later opinion, or jokes ) he masterminded.

Now it's really THAT easy: to come clean after operating (or while operating ) a degree mill, one might just claim it was a "lark", a "joke"...
What a JOKE!

[Randall Flagg]

So John condemns what others are doing and at the same time does the very same thing for the very same reason.....$$$$$$$.
" Millard Fillmore was morally opposed to Honoray Degrees." Bear then starts up a phoney school using Millard Fillmore's name. I seriously doubt President Fillmore would have seen the joke.

I now understand how to create a Good Degree Mill. You do it, take the money, and then say it was just for fun...a lark.... and everything is just fine. But just one thing. Don't all the other millers like what they do and have a lark cashing those checks. It does seem to me that a mill is a mill no matter how much one enjoys doing it. Does saying it was ha-ha-ha fun make it less of a mill? I don't see how.

[Brian Crawford]

So John condemns what others are doing and at the same time does the very same thing for the very same reason.....$$$$$$$.
" Millard Fillmore was morally opposed to Honoray Degrees." Bear then starts up a phoney school using Millard Fillmore's name. I seriously doubt President Fillmore would have seen the joke.

I now understand how to create a Good Degree Mill. You do it, take the money, and then say it was just for fun...a lark.... and everything is just fine. But just one thing. Don't all the other millers like what they do and have a lark cashing those checks. It does seem to me that a mill is a mill no matter how much one enjoys doing it. Does saying it was ha-ha-ha fun make it less of a mill? I don't see how.

John Bear wouldn't know ethics if his wife explained it to him.