What Kind of "Doctor" is Marcus Bachmann?

Just what kind of "doctor" is Marcus Bachmann? That's the question that more and more people, including Michelangelo Signorile are asking. And it looks increasingly like the answer may be that he isn't a doctor at all or that his degree is not in what he claims in his advertisements and on his clinic's web page. That's right, he may not hold the degrees claimed. As I have noted in prior posts, one of the biggest scams perpetrated by the Christianists and their "ministries" is that their supposed "experts" either don't have the degrees that they claim to possess or they have no legitimate credentials whatsoever that pertain to their supposed area of expertise (Linda Harvey mentioned in the previous post is a case in point). One can only hope that more digging is done to get to the bottom of what degrees Bachmann does hold. And GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann needs to be called out if it turns out that her husband is a fraud. Here are highlights from The Gist where Michelangelo looks at the facts surrounding Marcus Bachmann's alleged doctorate degree:
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On the web site of Bachmann and Associates, readers are invited to "meet Dr. Marcus Bachmann" who's been "a clinical therapist in the Twin Cities for more than 20 years." But what kind of "doctor" is Marcus Bachmann and where did he get his degree? In his bio Bachmann lists a masters degree from Pat Robertson's Regent University in Virginia. The bio also lists a "PhD – Clinical Psychology, Union Graduate School, OH." As blogger JARS points out in a well-researched post, the punctuation is all wrong on "PhD" which should be Ph.D."
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[I]t's important because he may or may not have a doctor of philosophy. And the Union Graduate School no longer exists. Bachmann got a doctoral degree in something from a shady university that came under scrutiny from the Ohio Board of Regents and whose graduate school was dissolved:
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The Union Institute's Ph.D. program came under scrutiny by the Ohio Board of Regents in the late 1990s early 2000s which culminated in its 2002 Reauthorization Report. The report was critical of the Union Institute's Ph.D. program, noting in particular that " ... expectations for student scholarship at the doctoral level were not as rigorous as is common for doctoral work ... " (OBR 2002 Reauthorization Report, page 13) As a result, The Union was put on probation, the Union Graduate School was dissolved and the Ph.D. program was restructured.
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JARS goes on to write that it seems highly suspect that Marcus Bachmann has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology because, if you follow the timeline, the school wasn't offering it:
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What does all this mean? On his website Dr. Bachmann states he’s had 23 years experience. Simple math brings us to the year 1988. If Dr. Bachmann’s Ph.D. was completed prior to this date, he might have graduated from The Union Graduate School which offered ONLY a Ph.D. in Arts and Sciences. If he graduated later than 1986, then he would have graduated from The Union Institute (1986), or The Union Institute and University (2001) and his Ph.D. would have been in Interdisciplinary Studies.
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If in fact Dr. Marcus Bachmann graduated from this institute, whatever it was named at the time, he would not have graduated with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. The ONLY doctorate in Clinical Psychology was offered after 2001, and the degree is a Psy.D. (Doctor of Psychology) and not a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy).
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Nobody lies and deceives more than the Christianists. They truly act as if the Commandment against lying and bearing false witness did not exist - even as they pretend to honor the Ten Commandments as part of their ploy to separate the ignorant, dim witted and intellectually lazy from their hard earned money. .