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Oldtimer - Cosby has an earned doctorate - can that be stripped from him on conviction?
We know that several honoray doctorates were stripped.
So - In this instance - the honorary doctorate is superior in that they can be removed - and that loser no longer be associated with your university.
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Bill Cosby is a sad story. The man was my favorite comedian. I did not realize he was a full fledged doctor.  But no it should not be stripped, he can practice in Prison. 
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I looked it up. His doctorate was not in medicine or pharmacology. It was in education. He write his dissertation on using his Fat Albert TV show in teaching elementary school children according to Wikipedia.
Cosby has received a number of honorary doctorate degrees. The following section is quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby:
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Cosby has been awarded at least 57 Honorary degrees since 1985 (many have been revoked; see next section):
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Wesleyan University in 1987.[108]
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Howard University, awarded in 1989.[109]
Honorary Doctorate from Rust College on November 20, 1990.[110]
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Temple University in 1991.[111]
Honorary Doctorate from the College of William & Mary in 1993.
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Northwestern University in 1997.[112]
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California, May 8, 1998.[113]
Honorary Doctorate from Old Dominion University awarded on May 9, 1998.[114]
Honorary Doctorate from Colgate University, May 22, 1999; he was also the keynote speaker for the commencement ceremony.[115]
Honorary Degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001[46]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2001.[116]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Juilliard School in 2002.[117]
Honorary Doctorate from Springfield College in 2002.[118]
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill awarded on May 19, 2003.[119][120]
Honorary Doctorate from Paine College in 2003.[121]
Honorary Degree in 2003 from Sisseton Wahpeton College for his contributions to minority education.[citation needed]
Honorary Doctorate from West Chester University of Pennsylvania during the 2003 graduation ceremony.[citation needed]
Honorary Doctorate from Hampton University in 2003.[122]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Yale University, May 26, 2003.[123][124]
Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, May 8, 2004.[125] Cosby was also the host of the school's 60th Anniversary Concert in January 2006.[126]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, December 5, 2008.[127]
Rescinded honorary degrees
Following numerous allegations of sexual assault made against Cosby, a number of his honorary degrees were rescinded or revoked. They include, in order of rescission:[128]
Honorary Doctor of Letters from Brown University; awarded May 1985, rescinded September 2015[129]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Amherst College, awarded in 1999, rescinded October 17, 2015.[130][131]
Honorary Doctor of Laws from Lehigh University; awarded May 1987, rescinded February 2016[132]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from University of Missouri-Columbia; awarded 1990, rescinded June 2017[133][134][135]
Honorary Doctor of Letters from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; awarded 1992, rescinded November 2015[136]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Swarthmore College; awarded 1995, rescinded December 2015[137][138]
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut; awarded May 18, 1996 (also served as commencement speaker)[139][140] rescinded June 2016[141]
Honorary Doctor of Arts from Tufts University; awarded 2000, rescinded October 2015[142]
Honorary Doctorate from Goucher College; awarded 2001, rescinded October 2015[143]
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Fordham University; awarded 2001, rescinded September 2015[144][145]
Honorary Doctorate from the University of San Francisco awarded on May 18, 2012, rescinded on September 25, 2015.[146]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Franklin & Marshall College, awarded in May 2000, rescinded on October 19 2015. [147]
Honorary Doctorate from Bryant University, awarded in May 1994, rescinded on November 12, 2015.[148]
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh awarded in 2002, rescinded on November 13, 2015.[149]
Honorary Doctorate from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, awarded June 1, 1995,[150] rescinded November 23, 2015.[151][152]
Honorary Doctor of Humanities from George Washington University in 1997,[153] rescinded January 11, 2016.[154][155]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Haverford College; awarded May 2002,[156] rescinded February 6, 2016[157][158]
Honorary Doctorate from Drew University; awarded May 2002,[159] rescinded October 2015[160]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Baylor University; awarded September 4, 2003, at the "Spirit Rally" for the Baylor and Central Texas communities,[161] rescinded October 2015[162]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Wilkes University; awarded May 2004, rescinded October 2015[163]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Oberlin College; awarded May 1, 2010,[164] rescinded December 2015[165]
Honorary Chief Petty Officer (Hospital Corpsman) in the United States Navy,[166] awarded 2011, revoked December 4, 2014[167][168]
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from The University of San Francisco; awarded May 18, 2012, rescinded September 2015[169]
Honorary Doctor of Letters from Marquette University; awarded May 19, 2013, rescinded September 2015[170][171]
Honorary Doctorate from Drexel University, awarded in 1992, rescinded on November 12, 2015.[172]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University; awarded May 18, 2014, rescinded December 2015[173]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from University of Missouri-Columbia; awarded 1990, rescinded June 2017[133][134][135]
Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania; awarded 1990[174] (Cosby also served as the commencement speaker in May 1997),[175] rescinded February 1, 2018[176]
Honorary Doctor of Education from Ohio State University, awarded in 2001, rescinded April 6, 2018.[177]
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Notre Dame, awarded on May 20, 1990,[178] rescinded on April 26, 2018.[179]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Johns Hopkins University, awarded in 2004,[180] rescinded on April 26, 2018.[181]
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Carnegie Mellon University, May 20, 2007; he was also the keynote speaker for the commencement ceremony.[182] Rescinded on April 26, 2018.[183] |
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Very sad, for him, the victims and all connected.
Sin takes us further than we ever intended to go and costs us more than we ever intended to pay. I'm praying for Bill that he truly repents before the Judge of all judges.
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| Otcp ain’t touching this one.... Gott love the guy he has guts. |
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4/26/18 11:01 pm
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Honorary doctorate superior to earned doctorate?
You boys gave me a belly laugh for I went to bed. Thanks.
Even a earned doctorate can be revoked under certain circumstances.
An apart from Cosby's EdD, none a the large list a honerys gave him the right to use the title "Dr." |
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4/27/18 12:43 am
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I wonder if anyone ever had more honorary Doctorates than Cosby? Everyone seemed to want to give him one.
He broke all kinds of color barriers.
He made cartoons that taught life lessons.
He was a clean comedian.
He spoke out about living right.
He portrayed the best Dad in America on TV for years.
And all the time he wanted to slip pills to women to have sex with them.
For goodness sake - there had to be lots of women that would have gladly did it for free - but he wanted to dominate and have power over helpless women. What causes a dude to be so accomplished and so sick at the same time?
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| My whole childhood was a lie. Bill! How could you! |
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4/27/18 8:52 am
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| Quote: | | What causes a dude to be so accomplished and so sick at the same time? |
It is truly a sad day for America. Prior to my hearing of these allegations of sexual assault, like so many others, I was a huge fan of just about everything Cosby did.
Last year, in my work as a part-time reporter for our local small-town newspaper, my reporting of the facts brought about the resignation under pressure of our city manager. His misconduct (that we know about so far) was similar to Cosby’s. I received quite a bit of flak from people who absolutely adored the guy in spite of his now proven history of sexual predation and other misconduct and immorality. “Well, nobody’s perfect,†they said. What would formerly have caused moral outrage in our culture now elicits a shrug of the shoulders and a brain-dead, “Well, nobody’s perfect†comment.
I truly hope I’m mistaken, but I predict the revelations about Cosby will only serve to encourage the immoral and to discourage any call for moral integrity from anyone anywhere. Their reasoning, if we can call it reason, will be, “Well, if America’s Dad was really like this behind closed doors, then ‘nobody’s perfect’ is obviously true, and so we just may as well learn to not expect much, morally speaking, from anyone.†|
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