This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without having one, just because someone mistook one of the posts on this blog to be my PhD.  Yes, it’s true, a blog post turned into a PhD dissertation! So much for due diligence when using online sources for doing a literature review. This is the story of how I found out, what I did about it, and why this PhD is not likely to go away. For all of you landing on this page searching for how to get your own PhD without writing a dissertation, this is NOT a post about you can get a PhD. It is just a fun story. If you’re looking for a PhD without a dissertation try searching Google for “PhD by publication”. For those of you wanting to read the story about my non-existing (but still referenced) PhD, please read on.

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