Joseph posted: “starwolf, Today for the right price anyone can get a piece of paper that says semicha on it. “
Indeed. And they can bolster their credentials among some folks by forbidding all sorts of secular education, denying that any type of knowledge comes from the goyim,and insisting that previous Rabbanim could never ever have been incorrect in anything that they said. Its a good strategy.
That is why we should not follow people blindly………