On 9/6/2020 2:37 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> 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
>


Seems like his rocket patent was for squatting on, too.