So that's alright then...

"For the record, I did not confer my own diploma, as he states. The board of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION), which is an educational trust that I founded in 1984, awarded me an honorary diploma. I am not, nor have I ever been, on the board of trustees."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2014245,00.html