With Donald Trump coming off his latest mini-Nuremberg rally, this seems like a good morning to take a look at that other Nazi in the White House. No, not Bannon. And no, not Sessions. He’s just a racist.
I’m talking about Dr. Sebastian Gorka. Gorka is a “Muslim expert” whose theories about Muslims sound like they were born in 13th century witch hunts, or perhaps discerned in the entrails of goats . Gorka puts his lurid fantasies forward with a level of arrogance and condescension that makes Donald Trump seem like the soul of modesty, never hesitating to tell people with decades of on the ground experience just how wrong they are about evil, evil Muslims.
But political science professor Andrew Reynolds at the University of North Carolina noticed something about “Doctor” Sebastian Gorka.
I started digging and it didn’t take long to find out that Gorka is a fraud – a charlatan of the most brazen hue – a snake-oil salesman whose supposed Ph.D dissertation would have never passed muster in America or Britain and to put the cherry on the cake was approved by a fraudulent panel of examiners.
Based on the dates of Gorka’s supposed PhD, it seems he may not have even attended the school from which he acquired the degree. And the listed examiners on his dissertation panel were friends of his, two of them without doctorates of their own. It’s not even clear that Gorka studied anything to do with political science or religion.
In sum, Gorka’s Ph.D is about as legitimate as if he had been awarded it by Trump University. Facts matter, but so does the gathering, synthesizing and creation of knowledge that is what we call ‘education.’ If you fake a Ph.D you are faking your credentials.
So, as it turns out, “Dr” Sebastian Gorka is a real Nazi, but a fake doctor. This has been another lesson in: Don’t mess with academics, because those guys know how to do research.
Okay, time to read some pundits.
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