What's Better: Unaccredited PhD or Self-Study PhD?

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Have you thought about co-publishing an academic paper?

I had talked to my professor at one point about co-publishing a paper and he said he was interested. When I began researching what I would publish, I found so much questionable and useless research that people were spinning their wheels on. I got discouraged and quit.

Anyway, if you're interested in self study, there's nobody to stop your from independent research, publishing books, etc.

Also, look into the National Coalition of Independent Scholars http://ncis.org/

Two great books for this: The Independent Scholar's Handbook (1993) by Ronald Gross and Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia Beyond the Academy (2020) Edited by Christine Caccipuoti and Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge