A student claimed to have a Ph.D. in at least eight letters to journals. Two have been retracted.
This past year, Zhihao Lei has signed his name to at least 35 letters to the editor of medical journals, weighing in on topics from ICU care to breast cancer. In eight of them, he identified himself…
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