Courtney's message today re-inspired a thought I had mauled over years.
I always felt for decades that credentials are not to be trusted on our prison planet. But I still believe it's worthwhile to have some mental distinction between the disciplined and the crazy.
Now days with Blockchain technology, it's possible for authentication of biometrics, and registering claims by those people with biometrics to make affidavits.
To put it more simply-
You can use cryptography to help prove
-someone is who they say they are when they post a message
-post a message that they insist is the truth
-can prove that they accomplished something
-can attest to training someone else.
Through such a mechanism you can have records of training that does not need a high academia bottle neck (or to sift through the fraud organizations). The fraud organizations are in a way doing a service to the world. Academia is buckling, allowing pseudoskeptics into the field to shut down new discoveries. So what's the point of even trusting it. Let the academics and the frauds all fall off the cliff simultaneously.
Embrace a new system of credentials that is cryptographic and peer-to-peer.