I moderate/admin a reddit about a specific medical condition (among
others). I banned this one guy, who I doubted was really a doctor,
and who wanted "special" recognition in the reddit (in the form of
flair as a real Doctor). He was peddling a suspicious cure/relief
for the condition which sounded like snake oil.

Of course he got all huffy about the ban. To prove he was a doctor
he sent me his credentials of his latest appointment as an Associate
Professor of Neurophysiology in New York. Which turned out to be
real - He was a doctor. WAS, that is - at one time.

After a little more diligent research it turned out to be THIS guy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-2df1ddbc885b/

He also patented a fart-propelled rocket:

"To operate the assembly, the operator places the inlet tube with
its valve open adjacent his anal region from which a colonic gas is
discharged....."

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6055910A/en

He has a bunch of other patents that are probably just for squatting
on. He did sell his most important patent right after he got
arrested - probably to buy a few packages of ramen noodles from the
jail commissary.

-sw