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

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.

On 9/6/2020 5:37 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
>

Now that was funny. Amazing how you can be smart enough to be a doctor
but still be really stupid.

On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 17:49:07 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

>>
>> 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.
>
> Now that was funny. Amazing how you can be smart enough to be a doctor
> but still be really stupid.

He lost his doctor license, but somehow he managed to buy this 550K
house in St Lucie, FL in 2005:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8...70416455_zpid/

But it's now back on the market. And that is a staged house
interior. His business address, OTOH, is a mobile home in a mobile
home park. I suspect that's his REAL residence and this house is
some sort of different scam. Or a vacation rental? <shrug>

If that's really his house, then he didn't really NEED that money.
That pig!

Asking for $5 million and making those threats, and recorded on a
wiretap was a little, uh... stupid?

He must have some sort of other scams going because he wouldn't be
scraping reddit to sell his overpriced $250 medical gadget with the
intensity that he is now (he's desperate). It doesn't sound like
anybody in the reddit has bought the device.

-sw