Journal Top Ten - April 2003

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1 TITLE: "Irving John Selikoff and the Strange Case of the Missing Medical Degrees"

SUMMARY: This article traces the education of Irving John Selikoff, an often-cited figure in the field of asbestos medicine. Selikoff, who is credited with helping establish a causal association between asbestos dust exposure and excess mortality rates in insulators, never obtained the medical degree he claimed to possess, according to the article. And, the article brings to light the question of whether asbestos regulation and litigation might have been different if Selikoff's allegedly 'brief, patchy and in some respects substandard' …