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January 19, 2007


Bogus scientist "bought Ph.D. on Internet"

Embarrassment for a peripatetic expert witness in the U.K.: "Gene Morrison, 48, who lived in Hyde, Cheshire, called himself Dr Morrison and trailed the letters PhD and BSc after his name. In advertisements in the Solicitors Journal he boasted that he had been offering a first-class 'objective and professional' service to the legal and insurance professions since 1977."

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