dear Turns, I don’t like to brag about it, but I have an honorary Ph.D. from the Millard Fillmore Institute. I won it for entering an essay contest, circa 1970.
I’m not sure where you can buy a Ph.D., but you can buy a D.D., a Doctor of Divinity degree. The Universal Life Church sells them very reasonably. I’m pretty sure there’s not problem with idolatry or anything because their only doctrine is, “Do only that which is right.”
So, you can buy it, or earn it the old-fashioned way as I did.