Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Sack Race

A top doctor has admitted her part in hoodwinking a leading medical journal after inventing a medical condition called "cello scrotum".

Elaine Murphy - now Baroness Murphy - dreamt up the painful complaint in the 1970s, sending a report to the British Medical Journal.

Very good. There's an unfortunate turn of phrase though:

A spokesman for the BMJ said that, 34 years on, no-one faced the sack for failing to spot the implausible condition.

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