Ask the experts...or perhaps not.

[Catalpa]

Next time you hear people on this Site quote the experts remember this one:

'Expert' who made up interviews is exposed

American and French media yesterday were taking a second look at the work of a so-called terrorism expert who faked his academic credentials - and entire interviews with some of the world's most prominent figures.

For six years Alexis Debat, who falsely claimed to have earned a PhD at the Sorbonne and worked as an adviser to the French defence ministry, operated as an expert on national security in the world of Washington thinktanks, US network television and French intellectual journals.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2169698,00.html

[Meursault]

Thanks for spotting that. How did he get away with it for so long. Surely someone reprasenting Kofi Annan, Hillary Clinton etc would have spotted that he had fabricated their interviews?

[ergo]

Debat may have started off posting authoritive opinions and inside knowledge to boards like this, and then was tempted to reach an even wider public.

[diego]

fake it to make it

[The Earl of Desmond]

Wasn't Koffi Annan the biggest fake of them all - claiming he would stand up for the rights of the poor and abused when in fact allowing his own son to rob the UN blind.

[MontgomeryClift]

You'd be a fool not to have a pack of lies for a CV. The truth is for little people.

[Fionn_McCool]

You'd be a fool not to have a pack of lies for a CV. The truth is for little people.

And expert help with the CV porkies may be available on the wonderful interweb...

In the course of a few days, the Guardian obtained a doctor of medicine certificate from Oxford University, a set of A-grade GCSEs, and a Bachelor of Arts from Strathclyde University, which was mistakenly written as being in English politics rather than English and politics (Mr Quinn promises to rectify such mistakes for no extra charge).

The documents are startlingly authentic, complete with university badges, stamps and watermarks.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/ ... 68,00.html

[Catalpa]

You'd be a fool not to have a pack of lies for a CV. The truth is for little people.

And expert help with the CV porkies may be available on the wonderful interweb...

In the course of a few days, the Guardian obtained a doctor of medicine certificate from Oxford University, a set of A-grade GCSEs, and a Bachelor of Arts from Strathclyde University, which was mistakenly written as being in English politics rather than English and politics (Mr Quinn promises to rectify such mistakes for no extra charge).

The documents are startlingly authentic, complete with university badges, stamps and watermarks.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/ ... 68,00.html

It could never happen here of course!

[Insider2007]

You'd be a fool not to have a pack of lies for a CV. The truth is for little people.

Bertie famously claimed to be a graduate of UCD and the LSE. He was a graduate of neither, having merely done something like a nightcourse in UCD.

[Bobb]

You'd be a fool not to have a pack of lies for a CV. The truth is for little people.

Bertie famously claimed to be a graduate of UCD and the LSE. He was a graduate of neither, having merely done something like a nightcourse in UCD.

What's something like a nightcourse?