A few weeks ago we wrote to Professor Clifford and to date we have received no answer. We will finally try writing to Aberdeeen University before going public with all the information. What type of Professor would not stand behind his research students. Tony Quinn claimed in his latest newsletter that Professor Clifford stood behind him. Here is what Donal Lynch found in 2004 in his research for the Life Magazine of the Sunday Independent Newspaper. Nothing has changed.
This reflects badly on the University of East London and more especially on Professor Clifford.
In a letter which has been seen by LIFE, Dr Robert Verkerk, a research scientist at Imperial College London, submitted a number of findings at the request of the Tony Quinn organisation. He suggested that Tony Quinn should open channels of communication with Dialogue Ireland, a body which offers “pastoral support for people who have returned from Tony Quinn seminars and are feeling disorientated or are in some form of distress” and for family members “who are coping with behavioural or other changes in their loved ones”. He went on: “The codes of conduct relating to the public demonstration of catalepsy are published by some major, internationally recognised professional bodies (eg International Society for Professional Hypnosis) and these should be heeded as far as possible.” He also suggested that the School of Psychology at the University of East London (UEL) should become involved in the editing of material to ensure its scientific accuracy. He received no response to this letter.
Verkerk mentioned UEL presumably because he knew that Quinn, the man who modestly calls himself “a philosopher”, is currently a student of that college. Professor Brian Clifford is supervising Quinn’s doctorate on Educo. I spoke to Professor Clifford who told me that Tony Quinn’s claims for the Educo systems in his business life were of no concern to the college. When I asked whether Dr Quinn’s previous doctorate from the American Pacific University would have an impact when this one was being awarded, Professor Clifford told me, “No, we don’t count that one.” He also revealed that Tony Quinn’s thesis had just been returned to its author with heavy notations, and that I could “read into that what you will”. He added that he hoped and expected that Quinn would eventually get his doctorate from UEL.
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BOGUS QUALIFICATIONS AND QUINN
Quinn acquired an essentially bogus doctorate to try to give himself some respectability. He had failed on many occasions to get real qualifications and achievements so he resorts to deception, deception and more deception to achieve his ends. The extent of Quinn’s deception is typical of a real cult leader’s mentality.
Given his ill-gotten financial accumulation, maybe he could offer to build a new wing on the university that keeps failing him in his attempts to pass off his simplistic, second-hand philosophical thesis as original research. Surely with all his cronies and helpers, by now, even he could produce some waffly, concocted philosophy and manage to persuade this institution to make him a “Doctor of Codology”? After all, this is a very low ranked institution and shouldn’t even be worthy of his self-proclaimed “genius” if his years of egotistical spoutings were to be believed..