- Elias Alsabti
Elias Alsabti is an
Iraq i medical researcher who has been exposed for scientific fraud.Alsabti built a career as an
impostor . In Iraq, the medical student managed to get a reputation as acancer research er. He reworked articles from lesser knownscientific journal s into entries that he submitted for publication elsewhere. By pretending to be a member of theJordan ian royal family, he obtained a generous scholarship by the Jordanian government and in 1977 moved to theUnited States . In the late 1970s, he worked as a cancer specialist for various American research institutions, moving on when his utter lack of knowledge and understanding was noticed. He is estimated to have published 50 to 60 plagiarized articles in a few years, many of them in reputable journals, often with co-authors who have never published with anyone but him, which led to the suspicion that they may not exist.Several journals retracted publications after the fraud was exposed. Alsabti's license to practice medicine in
Massachusetts was revoked in 1988.External resource
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