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This is a link post Man questions people's qualifications
I stumbled across this while looking into something else ("Professor" John Searl's generator, bullshit fans) and was mildly horrified to find that I recognised one of the names: Dr Terry Moore, of the Cat Survival Trust.

I'm not inclined to take anything someone calling themselves "truthseeker666" says at face value, but I'm a bit troubled by this.

I know that Dr Moore has a presence on b3ta, as do people who know and work with him at the CST, and that the CST has a long and proud association with b3ta. So I am really, sincerely hoping that someone will be able to tell me that the allegation contained in this video (from about 6 minutes onwards) - that Dr Moore is as much of a doctor as Gillian McKeith - is false and unfounded.
(Plague Hedgehog 'posting crap', Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Jailed?
JAHLED?
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Who has a whole microphone rig by his computer?
And is that a real alien head on his wall?
 (I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post All reasons to treat any words that come out of his face with extreme caution, right enough.

(Plague Hedgehog 'posting crap', Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'd rather he had a microphone than a gun

(12 years a dave, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Are you sure he doesn't have a gun?

(I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Unfortunately I can't watch this with sound
given i'm now in charge of a library, so I can't really comment on what the guy is saying.

Terry is a Doctor of Homeopathy, whatever your views on alternative medicine, it's still a recognized qualification.

Terry, being a human being, has his own interests in life, and one of them is the Searl's generator. He's made a video or two supporting it, that seemed a bit far out to me, but it's really up to him what his own interests are.

There is a guy who has continuously tried to discredit everything else Terry does in life, like one of these obsessed conspiracy nutters, including the welfare of his cats, and his accounts. Braindamage, has seen Terry's accounts, and low and behold all is in order. He's got his own business so knows what he's looking at as well. He like me has also spent years with the cats, and all is in order. He's a member of the studbook program for all his animals with the other major zoological collections. Our lovely Pallas cat, Garth, went off to Port-lympne, where his new keepers are posting on FB what a lovely, but exceedingly sinister feline he is.
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post Thank you, that answers that.
I personally would not recognise any qualifications in homeopathy, but if you get to call yourself "doctor" after obtaining one, then fair enough.

I note that they guy in this video said nothing bad about the CST itself, and I would hope nobody infers that from anything I said.
 (Plague Hedgehog 'posting crap', Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post No worries
I personally think Homeopathy is a load of codswallop myself, but each to their own. It's something he was interested in earlier in life; he owned an electronics shop before he and his wife started the charity in 1977. He's got some pretty maverick views on conservation and the world in general. I don't agree with his approach on everything, nor necessarily how he interprets everything that's going on in the world, but life would be very, very dull populated by clones of ourselves wouldn't it. And to quote the Director of Zoology here at London Zoo (when I asked him about Terry in 2006), "Conservation needs mavericks."

Bit mental someone's made a video trying to damn the guy though, he's not known outside of the work he does for conservation
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've not seen anything else this guy has done
and I'm not inclined to, that was 14 minutes of my life I won't get back in a hurry. I only watched it because I recognised the name. I think Terry Moore only crossed his radar because he's obsessed with this Searl guys's work.

Searl, as far as I can tell, is a money-grabbing liar and charlatan who is as much a professor as I am an astronaut. This guy's issue seems to be with the fact that Dr Moore endorses his work, and the title "doctor" lends it an air of legitimacy (much like "professor" does). Now, if he's entitled to call himself doctor, it's all above board. My opinion about the validity of his qualification is really neither here nor there.
 (Plague Hedgehog 'posting crap', Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm sitting in a zoological library normally used by PhD students
I help them become doctors basically, that's part of my job when i'm not photographing artwork for publishers. They will be no more qualified to prescribe me morphine than my mum, and yet are called Doctors when their research is done.

Do you think Terry would have lasted since 1977 running a charity if he had any deceptions about him. He has to work with the government, and governments of other countries. He has a reservation in Argentina. We made a documentary for the Discovery Channel which was broadcast quite literally in every country in the world where there is basically television. In all that time no one has investigated his background and come back to him saying your qualification is a lie mate. Most people who deceive like that keep their heads down in life. not make television to be shown all round the world
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm not saying anything like that,
just trying to explain why this bloke talks about him in the video (because you already said you can't watch it with sound).

Dr Moore is a doctor, he's entitled to call himself doctor. That's all there is to it. Like I say, I consider that title to be meaningless if he's a doctor of homeopathy, but that's just my opinion, and is nothing to do with him. Anyway, it was you that said homeopathy was "a load of codswallop", not me.
 (Plague Hedgehog 'posting crap', Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah cool
Given this library is currently empty, I might turn up the sound..

..though knowing my luck the MD will suddenly appear at the most embarrassing moment, when that Youtube nutter is in full swing
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha
"I was watching nutters on YouTube for... er... research, honest!"
 (Plague Hedgehog 'posting crap', Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post :)

(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Always worth remembering when watching youtube at work:
You are only ever two clicks away from sideboob.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 17:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post he really shouldn't be going around calling himself a Doctor
He's not a Doctor, he's misleading people and he knows it
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post You can call yourself a 'Doctor' if you get a PhD, it's a title
He doesn't make out he's a qualified medical doctor in the formal sense of medicine, so I don't get what you're on about
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Exactly.
Look at Dr Who
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Excactly
And Dr. Love (Gene Simmons)
 (I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post But Dr Feelgood can fuck off with his title. He aint no real doctor.
(Unlike DJ Dr Fox, who's also a qualified consultant urologist at St Mary's Hospital in London)
 (I helped save b3ta! sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dr Hook likewise

(I helped save b3ta! social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dr. Hook was in the right place, but the wrong time.
That's why I love Dr. Pepper.
 (I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dr Fox seems to have like playing doctors and nurses a little too much.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 17:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ithink you know exactly what I'm on about
but I don't blame you for defending your mate
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Does it really matter?
If Gillian McKeith had been using the title of "Dr" to gain funds to build homes for amphetamine addicted pandas, I wouldn't give the slightest toss that it wasn't her real title. It was the fact that she was raking in cash and telling people pseudo-scientific clap trap while using her title to prove her authority that I took offence to.

I'm a Dr of physics (really, I've got a certificate and everything), but I don't tend to mention it to people outside of my work for several reasons, to name a few:

1. They think I earn shed loads of money (I don't)
2. They think I'm really intelligent (I'm not)
3. They ask me if I can prescribe some cream for their infection (I can't)
4. They tell me I'm "not a real doctor though are you" (I am)

There are many, many reasons why Dr Moore wouldn't want to discuss his doctorate with some raving YouTube lunatic, and that's absolutely his prerogative.
 (I helped save b3ta! fozberry, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think you may hit it on the head with 'raving YouTube lunatic'
and they are legion
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Can't be bothered listening to all of that
but basically, if someone has got a Doctorate from a decent university, it is a matter of public record and should be easy to check, even by phoning up the institution and just asking (there is no confidentiality issue: the whole point is that it's a publicly recognised qualification).

If it's difficult to find out whether or not someone has a doctorate, or they're reluctant to confirm where it's from, then the chances are their doctorate is a bit hooky.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dr. Hook is a very good case in question
I'm going to ask Sylvia's Mother about this troubling turn in events for sure.
 (I helped save b3ta! knockear - I socialise with x-ray eyes. Jam on it!, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post He looks like an even shitter Carl Pilkington

(I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post We should have a charity auction for Catnippp to say sorry for ever favouring one charity over a similar one.

(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you have to be a Doctor to photograph big cats?

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post I hope not

(I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 19:33, , Reply)