November 2, 2007

Plagiarism, Prayer, and Fraud Play Roles in Lawsuit Against Professor

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

When does criticizing another scholar's work cross the line into libel? Bruce L. Flamm has to go to court to find out.

The volunteer clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California at Irvine is being sued by a prominent South Korean researcher, Kwang Y. Cha, who accused him of defamation in statements he made this year in a medical newspaper called OB-GYN News.

The row between Dr. Cha and Dr. Flamm goes back to a controversial 2001 paper in which

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