Doctors try to get speakers to boycott international conference chaired by plagiarist

doi:10.1136/bmj.b3545

Published 1 September 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3545
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3545

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Doctors try to get speakers to boycott international conference chaired by plagiarist

Oona Mashta

¹ London

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A group of doctors from the United Kingdom is trying to getspeakers at a forthcoming international medical conference inCroatia to boycott it on the grounds that it is being chairedby a proven plagiarist.

The group is unhappy that the fifth annual meeting of the InternationalAcademy of Perinatal Medicine—to be held in Dubrovnikin October $-$ is being chaired by Asim Kurjak of Zagreb UniversityMedical School.

The British doctors are writing to all the non-Croatian speakerstaking part, who number 44 in all, alerting them to ProfessorKurjak’s history of plagiarism.

Professor Kurjak was found guilty of scientific misconduct bythe Croatian government’s Committee for Ethics in Scienceand Higher Education in May 2007. The committee found him guiltyof "violations of the [committee’s] ethics code and ofcommon norms in biomedical publishing."

Professor Kurjak eluded punishment by Zagreb University, becausethe alleged offences had taken place . . . [Full text of this article]

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