Cellist disease a hoax, British doctor confesses
Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 01:59
in Health & Medicine
Baroness Elaine Murphy decides to come clean on inventing 'cello scrotum,' which appeared in the British Medical Journal 34 years ago. Thirty-four years after the fact, a British physician who is now a member of the House of Lords has confessed to fabricating a disease called "cello scrotum" and getting its details published in the prestigious British Medical Journal.
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