How To Use Bogus In A Sentence
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We filter all the e-mails in the evening to verify whether any bogus votes are cast.
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Sick of his persona - delicate emotions paired off with caustic cynicism - he creates a bogus doppelganger to hide behind.
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The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, the centuries spent trying to find a proof and Professor - now Sir - Andrew Wiles's final victory, is recounted in a book by Simon Singh , a physicist and author also famous for his battle to change the libel laws after he was sued for calling pseudoscientific medical treatments "bogus" .
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Once the substance had been entirely sucked out, all that was left was the bogus symbolism of anti-establishmentarianism and the hollow tropes of faux danger and commercialized dissent.
I Saw The News On Television Today, Oh Boy
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“At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.”
The Lampshade
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The lists are shared with fraudsters who run bogus lotteries and timeshare rip-offs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The notion that vitamins and colloidal minerals, herbs, coffee enemas, colonic irrigation, Laetrile, meditation, etc., can enhance the immune system and thereby help restore health is bogus.
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Scouting seminars in hotels are a popular rip-off tactic used by bogus agencies.
The Sun
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Received a hottish email from Jacqueline Bartlett of the St. Martins Booktown Initiative informing me that her Shipbuilding and Fishing village’s claim to bookishness is anything but bogus.
St. Martins, New Brunswick Booktown: The Real Thing
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Meanwhile, the decline in student numbers over the past six years is largely due to the closure of more than 900 bogus colleges.
Times, Sunday Times
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If H2O is a NET MAGNIFIER after all forcings/feedbacks, then the AGW proponent models trend towards their doomsday rise — if H2O is not a NET MAGNIFIER never the AGW proponent assumption, even though Dr Lindzen among others presumes as much, then the causational threat is bogus.
UCAR Webcast of Bradley, Crowley, Ammann – Apr 6, 2005 « Climate Audit
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Organized gangs located potential victims by combing through the White Pages, and they paid for the postage with bogus stamps.
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Up to 700 cases may now have to be reviewed because of the bogus opinions he proffered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bogus offshore banking sites can threaten to report you to your tax authority if you question their methods.
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Bogus Talking Point #3: Elizabeth Warren is not 'confirmable'
Zach Carter: There Are Zero Good Reasons To Block Elizabeth Warren
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Shoppers perennially grumble about bogus price cuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The oozy goo of reproduction and decay impinges darkly on the tidy geometrical regularity of a bogus suburban milieu.
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We're investigating what they describe as bogus donors.
CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2008
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In his incapacitated state the bogus lawman fell gratefully back onto the grass.
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To distract American taxpayers from the suspicion that the stimulus is largely bogus, Obama encourages green space exploration, presumably with the intention of assisting the Venusians currently imperilling their planet.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible « Anglican Samizdat
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His claim to have been an Army photographer is also beginning to sound bogus; his photographs, to put it mildly, really stink, and are an insult to military photographers everywhere.
Heroes or Villains?
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I can't believe Obama is charged with ngegative campaigning when he calls attention to the bogus nature of this gas tax reprieve, which would cost $9 Billion, and put pennies in commuter's pockets, throw thousands of highway construction workers out of work, and be paid back by some further bogus tapping of the oil industry, which legislation would be immediately vetoed by Bush.
Obama camp out with new gas tax ad, Clinton camp fires back
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These bogus alerts directed users to a maliciously constructed Web site run by Papierniak, instead of the genuine PayPal site.
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We need to stop bogus marriages, crack down on colleges and make sure that the English language checks we carry out abroad are done properly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bogus accounts were unearthed after the comptroller revisited the sampling audits of suspect non-resident accounts undertaken by the Revenue.
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But there are also bogus philosophers who aim only at money and status, and bring her into discredit, and they drive her crazy.
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The list was purged of bogus names.
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The whole notion of momentum in sports is bogus, or at least way overblown.
Just Who Are These Yankees?
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Using the term Meo as a honored title is totally bogus as it is like us calling a black the N word.
Heroes or Villains?
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They are verifying records and seeking to ensure that any rumored bogus claims and overcharges are caught.
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The awesome stupidity of the common herd endures and multiplies, in part, because of the bogus trend stories that daily newspapers feed it.
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A speedy way to look pretentious is to affect learning that is recognisably bogus.
Times, Sunday Times
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They lure people to bogus websites where they enter their card details.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chances are the story will be bogus or, even if genuine, the publicity process will render the hero decidedly unheroic.
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We passed our damning evidence to the police, who swooped on the companies' premises and arrested the masterminds behind the bogus operation.
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Can it indeed be bogus and worthless poetry that has obsessed critical reviewers for nearly twenty years?
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Watch out for emails asking you to fill in your personal details, or bogus websites.
Times, Sunday Times
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His scam involved real and bogus firms and thousands of fake documents.
The Sun
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First it was bogus colleges.
Times, Sunday Times
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The US has been staying in a war for more than a year since senate Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee bottled up information that showed the administration knew that evidence they cited as reasons to go to war was provided by a source who was known to "fabricate" bogus information.
Republicans Still Keeping Secret Evidence Administration Used Reports They Knew Were False to Bring US to War
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All these channels simply had no creative staff left to produce bogus news.
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Menashe, whom he has previously labelled a fraudster, must provide documentary evidence that his firm is not bogus.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Illegal migrants and bogus asylum seekers poured in.
The Sun
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According to name drop 1, name drop 2 bogus reference 1 and bogus reference 2 embrace the Godellian Quantum bijective ontological entanglement love dynamic resulting from entanglement with holographic universe.
New Scientist - Online News
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Nearby is a unique 60-cm-high Boguslavka iron meteorite, which is the fragment of a single, giant monocrystal of kamacite (an alloy of meteoritic iron and nickel).
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Elderly people are being warned to beware of bogus callers following an attempted burglary.
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She and Wenyi also told us of the punishment workers receive for speaking out against their low pay and horrid working conditions, and the bogus factory inspections by Wal-Mart operatives whose arrival is announced to the management before they come to "inspect" the workplace.
Kerry Candaele: Wal-Sprawl in China
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Gang members submit bogus invoices for damage and sometimes treatment for personal injury to insurance companies.
The Sun
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Data trackers will find better sources if they discover bogus information in their data trawls.
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In Mr. Black's case, prosecutors had alleged that Mr. Black, the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc., and other executives supported lavish lifestyles by siphoning off millions from the company through bogus management fees and noncompetition agreements as Hollinger sold off many of its smaller newspapers.
High Court Sides With Skilling, Black
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As much as 80 per cent of the currency is bogus, so no one has any idea what the shilling might be worth.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spin, swallowed by our kneepad wearing press, that Bush had to fly in a jet because the ship was too far off was bogus.
Archive 2003-05-01
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This angers me almost as much as the idea of quantifying happiness is as bogus as ideas come.
A Trillion Nazis Versus the Trolley Problem, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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However, this is a conservative estimate that suggests at most just one in eight of all non-resident accounts opened over the period in question were bogus.
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Certainly “bin Ladenism” seemed to share some commonalities with the Nazis and the Soviets: their anti-Semitism; their antiliberalism and general contempt for Enlightenment values; their cultlike embrace of charismatic leaders; their deft exploitation of modern propaganda methods; and their bogus promises of utopia here on Earth if their programs were implemented.
The Longest War
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They say his bogus unit marched in a parade in Los Angeles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trading standards watchdogs are warning businesses to be on their guard against a bogus bills scam.
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It was a bogus company, it was a bogus investment.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this way, the officials allegedly find an opportunity to misappropriate public funds by preparing bogus muster rolls.
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Sergeants were crisscrossing southern California, tracking down witnesses to interview for clearly bogus complaints.
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But this bogus community, spirited up to serve administrative convenience, does not exist.
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That was the kind of name they chose for the bogus airlines that ran weapons to the tribesmen in Laos and Cambodia.
SNOWLINE
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Bogus callers who target elderly victims may start their criminal careers as young as seven or eight and are often taught to offend by relatives or family friends, according to a Home Office study.
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On investigation, his claim was found to be bogus.
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She allegedly obtained lists of elderly care home residents by offering dental treatment, then used their names to claim for bogus work.
The Sun
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Their argument that the dispute with Southern is about safety is bogus.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fights between differing entities or real enemies can be resolved, but the fights between brothers are irresolvable because they are bogus fights.
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There are reports that a support group for bogus non-resident account holders has retained lawyers to fight a number of cases against financial institutions.
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Thousands of bogus students remain free to enter Britain despite new laws to tighten controls on immigration.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gang members submit bogus invoices for damage and sometimes treatment for personal injury to insurance companies.
The Sun
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Victims were duped by bogus get-rich-quick schemes involving fake documents before the scam was exposed.
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In this way, the entire Scottish nation adopted the bogus Highland symbols of kilt and tartan.
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For the most part the only people who actually bothered to look at the registration rolls and allow the overturn of bogus objections were a few retirees who volunteer as polling officials during elections.
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A Downpatrick man was targeted by a bogus caller claiming to want to use his phone.
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The consequences of drugs prescribed by practitioners with bogus qualifications and only the haziest understanding of medicine can be horrific.
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Those with genuine grievances are given the run-around while bogus claimers cost us all more in the end.
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If a bogus notarization is deemed legal, it's much harder to prove that the document itself is just a big fat fraud.
Zach Carter: Obama Must Reject The Foreclosure Fraud Bailout
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An email that directs the recipient to a bogus website.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here's a a great big steaming pile of angst that I fear the Democrats will inflict on the whole of the United States: What Draconian measures will they pass to bring this country into complience with the bogus global warming dictates from the Euroweenies?
Sound Politics: Schumer: Dems Can Ride Middle-Class "Angst" Into White House
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Sergeants were crisscrossing southern California, tracking down witnesses to interview for clearly bogus complaints.
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It worms out and exposes to the brutal light of the sun anything that is bogus, boastful, ungenuine and untrue.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was fooled by his bogus identity card.
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He persuaded them to put money into bogus investment deals.
Times, Sunday Times
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And we exposed him as being prepared to offer help to an apparent bogus asylum seeker.
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They have carried out bogus charity collections, robberies, attempted abductions and vandalism.
The Sun
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Paintball Punks' bank account in what's known as a "chargeback" and recouped the money from the bogus transactions.
StarTribune.com rss feed
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Digital attacks against individuals were on the rise, as were bogus phone calls by scammers trying to trick people into parting with their card details.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bogus workman called at six homes in Blackburn claiming to have been sent from a housing association to drill a hole for a cable so a second workman could install an intercom later.
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There has been a spate of incidents where bogus officials have called on the homes of elderly people.
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The two bogus window fitters persuaded the woman that she needed a new fascia board on her window.
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Apparently, there were some bogus calls that were made in to try and - you know, for whatever reason, some sick people would do that.
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Gang members submit bogus invoices for damage and sometimes treatment for personal injury to insurance companies.
The Sun
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They were however concerned that they might be factoring bogus invoices.
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It includes bogus demographics, minor details shorn of context, calumnies against the victims and remorseless fakery.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as advice on how to deal with bogus callers, securing property and the home, there will be tips on safeguarding gardening tools and machinery.
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Detectives believe the driver may have been an unlicensed, bogus cabbie.
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Any pothead who has ever purchased a bogus.4 count from some foggy-eyed pusher-man in the Berri metro will understand why it's so important to take to the streets in support of easy access to quality legal reefer.
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The child was taken away from her parents by a bogus social worker.
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An investigation by the Manchester Evening News revealed the huge number of bogus taxi drivers picking up fares in the city centre.
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The narrator showed how money was moved from Citibank to a bogus company.
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Most were offered jobs in the city or tricked into bogus marriages by procurers promising them a new life in India.
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The Revenue will be sending two more large tranches of letters this year, so, based on earlier figures, there are, at least, tens of thousands of bogus account holders.
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Any American with an assemblance of intelligence and initiative to “question authority” knew long before the first bombs dropped in Iraq that we were headed to a bogus war that we would not be able to get out of quickly.
McClellan’s Book Bubble Bursts on the Blogs - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Their argument that the dispute with Southern is about safety is bogus.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trouble with both these arguments is that they are bogus.
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Conmen are attempting to make people cough up bogus traffic fines after they return from trips abroad.
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Local residents have claimed that one cause of the crisis is that bogus rate collectors are taking the money they collect, so it does not get paid to the council.
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The essential property and developmental course of Euclidean space, symplectic space and bogus space are studied.
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Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching.
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To be fair, amid all the grumbling he finds plenty to admire, not least the lovely medieval jumble of Old Town in Estonia's capital, Tallinn; the music of Arvo Pärt; the Grimm flair of Estonian names Tarmo, Gerli, Epp; and, with characteristic contrariness, Vana Tallinn, a revolting liqueur of unidentifiable sickliness and bogus antiquity.
Stranger In a Strange Land
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Bogus social workers have been preying on old people living alone.
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Certainly “bin Ladenism” seemed to share some commonalities with the Nazis and the Soviets: their anti-Semitism; their antiliberalism and general contempt for Enlightenment values; their cultlike embrace of charismatic leaders; their deft exploitation of modern propaganda methods; and their bogus promises of utopia here on Earth if their programs were implemented.
The Longest War
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Police in Southend are warning residents to beware of bogus callers who visit the area as summer approaches.
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Banks report very few of the estimated 25,000 to 50,000 bogus non-resident account holders have sought information to help avail of the Revenue Commissioner's amnesty.
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That bogus claim has now been refuted by both the snopes urban legend page and by my op-ed articles.
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Safety chiefs are warning businesses about a scam in which bosses are charged hundreds of pounds from a bogus health and safety organisation.
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His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media.
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There are charities that do so little in terms of charitable activity that, in effect, they are bogus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands of bogus students remain free to enter Britain despite controls aimed at tightening immigration.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this bogus community, spirited up to serve administrative convenience, does not exist.
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Warning: when they check the signatures the term "illegible" is often used quite liberally and they may try to discard MANY signatures with that bogus claim.
At long last, it's recall day (Jack Bog's Blog)
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By resorting to understatement, concrete and physical language, a poet contends against abstraction, generalization, hyperbole and the heroic language of hot-headed generals and bogus lovers alike.
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If I could turn green and deal some hulky misery, I totally would in any of these totally bogus situations.
Wilberteets Diary Entry
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He called for honesty, adding that bogus claims may still get asylum with their own nationalities.
The Sun
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The mayor warned people to beware of bogus charities purporting to be collecting money for victims' families.
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On investigation, his claim was found to be bogus.
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Prosecutors originally had alleged that Mr. Black, the former chairman of media conglomerate Hollinger International Inc., and other executives supported lavish lifestyles by siphoning millions of dollars from the company through bogus management fees and noncompetition agreements as Hollinger sold off many of its smaller newspapers.
Conrad Black Sent Back to Prison for 13 Months
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In fact, the entire concept of "incorporation" is a bogus construct anyway.
Itchy Trigger Finger « PubliCola
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Most bogus non-resident account holders died with undeclared assets and tax liabilities.
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A pensioner has been conned into handing over his life savings to bogus workmen.
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The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement.
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People can get hurt, friends can become enemies and reps can be tarnished by bogus gossip.
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He made 54 claims in three years over 'injuries' to the bogus moggies.
The Sun
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KAYE: Some gynecologists, including Hutcherson, call hymen replacement a bogus procedure.
CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006
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She used four fictitious names on bogus loan applications to her company and pocketed the proceeds.
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Banks report very few of the estimated 25,000 to 50,000 bogus non-resident account holders have sought information to help avail of the Revenue Commissioner's amnesty.
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In fact, the ombud at the Washington Post and the public editor at the New York Times chided their respective papers for not giving the bogus "scandal" more attention.
Peter Hart: Pimps and Prostitutes... Again?
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From a critical perspective, Juanita's awareness that her work could be ‘dismissed as bogus’ because of particular language choices is an important factor in her development as a rhetorician.
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Read in studio A bogus policeman has tried to abduct two children and to extort an on-the-spot fine from a driver.
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A speedy way to look pretentious is to affect learning that is recognisably bogus.
Times, Sunday Times
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These bogus safety issues and courses are a monstrous waste of money.
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The bogus film was used as a cover to smuggle the Americans out of Iran.
Times, Sunday Times
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A further concern, bogus or remediable or both, is that open availability of the reports might subject CRS to liability issues.
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The BJP indulged in large-scale bogus voting in these elections and that is the only reason they won,’ she said.
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Meanwhile, the decline in student numbers over the past six years is largely due to the closure of more than 900 bogus colleges.
Times, Sunday Times
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The very fact that he himself is punished for something quite arguable ´bogus´ meaning ´fact´ instead of ´opinion´...is disproportionate, as calling a treatment bogus, can never be seen as a fact it would mean my doctor would give me a litteral bogus if i came for a prescription.
BCA v Singh: An Astonishingly Illiberal Ruling
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The journalists set up a bogus lobbying company and offered to pay the three in return for access to government.
Times, Sunday Times
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He persuaded them to put money into bogus investment deals.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is as bogus as narrowing the definition of SF to any one of the subsets of (combinable) modes at play in the field.
Archive 2007-03-01
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This judgment demonstrated that not all the evidence submitted comprised of bogus claims from fakers, as had been suggested.
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This kind of blathering in the media - like the "bogus refugees" comment - is not Harper-esque at all.
Jason kenney should resign because...
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Figures on financial loss created by bogus claims involving hi-tech goods are hard to come by.
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The film shows the harrowing reality behind the newspaper hysteria over ‘bogus’ refugees.
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She was fooled by his bogus identity card.
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Auschwitz theft suspect extradited 'this week' (7 Apr 10) Högström has denied plotting to steal the sign -- whose German inscription translates as "Work Will Set You Free" -- Boguslawa Marcinkowska, spokeswoman for prosecutors in Krakow, southern Poland, said without giving further details.
The Local - Sweden's news in English
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Stiff penalties are to be introduced for people who make bogus insurance claims.
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It is hoped they will also cut bogus compensation claims.
The Sun
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Their figures are as bogus as their claims to be non-political.
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The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement.
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In circumstances where it seems to me that expressed committment is bogus I will surely reconsider my support.
Greg Stone should have the candidacy removed if we are supposedly the party of equality « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
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Joseph Priestley, the great Unitarian humanist and discoverer of oxygen, was wedded to a bogus theory of the chemistry of gasses wherein they burned into “phlogiston,” which he called a “principle of inflammability.”
Flaws of Gravity
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He had so many aliases he wrote bogus names in his baseball cap to remind him which one he was using.
The Sun
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Basically they're bogus entities (such as database records, files, spreadsheet entries) that trigger an alarm when accessed.
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Elderly people are being warned to beware of bogus callers following an attempted burglary in Sutton.
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John Sweeney, in a TV documentary to be shown tonight, says the figures are bogus.
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Bogus sickness appears to be rising and genuine, short-term illness is also on the increase.
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The pope is not infallible, Mary is not an intercessor, Purgatory doesn't exist, and the sacraments are bogus.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
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He had denied using a false diary and concocting a bogus story in his defence of the Daily Star's claims.
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He is not shy about declaring the calls legit or bogus but the most interesting part of his analysis entails giving reasons why a foul was or was not called.
Paula Duffy: Tim Donaghy Explains NBA Finals Foul Calls for Fun and Profit
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This reservoir of anonymous accounts and bogus banks is accessed by institutions for both genuine and illicit purposes.
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His claim to be a representative of the downtrodden masses is, of course, completely bogus.
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Watching it, I found myself quietly appalled by the smugness, condescension and bogus rhetoric on display.
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Some will be justified and some bogus, but unless you know the relative proportion of each, you don't know whether your overall uncertainty is mostly justified or mostly bogus.
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Pensioners in Colchester were today told to keep their guard up after bogus callers struck twice.
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Louka is also plagued by the police who are very suspicious about his bogus marriage.
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They have carried out bogus charity collections, robberies, attempted abductions and vandalism.
The Sun
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All 13 of Waterford's tax defaulters were penalised for non-payment of income tax and for being the holders of bogus non-resident bank accounts.
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I say, get medicine back under traditional scientific authority -- the science of all men everywhere that has incorporated such foreign discoveries as rauwolfia, L-dopa and acupuncture without the accompanying bogus voodoo ideologies and superstitions.
Mail Call: Ancient Healing Arts
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Shane your ascribing hidden reasons to my inner motivations is totally bogus.
Think Progress » Kristol Supports Arizona Immigration Law: ‘I Don’t Think It Violates Anyone’s Civil Rights’
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A 72-year-old woman in Chiswick answered the door to a bogus water board official with bogus identification.
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i have helped thousands of aspiring muscle-builders achieve their dream bodies. and i receive emails every single day from people just like you thanking me for the amazing results they've achieved. and unlike the other so-called bodybuilding "experts" who hide behind computers, phony names and bogus back stories ...
Xml's Blinklist.com
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He spent his early 20s peddling dope and stolen cars, and making bogus stock trades.
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He had so many aliases he wrote bogus names in his baseball cap to remind him which one he was using.
The Sun
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The oil fields of Iraq are clearly 'divvied' up among the plotters -- Exxon Mobil, Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil, BP America Inc et al. The common sense interpretation of the undeniable timeline (in the public record) is that Bush and Cheney conspired with their neocon and oil industry 'base' to perpetrate a hoax upon the US -- a 911 pretext -- upon which they would raise the bogus specter of 'terrorism'!
Bush tells another bald-faced whopper, claims he has laid the 'foundation of peace'!
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Sitting in a safe-deposit box in a discreet bank in Geneva, Switzerland— along with ten passports with ten other bogus names on them—was his genuine passport, the one imprinted with his real name: Orville Timken.
Gideon’s war
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First, many critics see this as a silly game of publication counting, a bogus guide to merit in the lab.
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Shipman had falsified his records to create bogus medical histories to explain away the sudden deaths of his victims.
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Police have issued a warning after the bogus trio struck twice in Colchester yesterday.
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It's this bogus idea of putting power into the hands of the people.
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This lying dirtbag is funded by Exxon Mobil and other fossil fuel producers (through their proxies, of course) to lie about global warming science (many of Seixon’s bogus criticisms echo Milloy).
Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science
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Also arrested in an operation, codenamed " Fire Balloon " which started last Friday, were a director of a company, a proprietress of an estate agency, six flat owners, and 30 suspected bogus tenants.
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A body search of Prajim revealed 4,320 baht in cash and 150 bogus banknotes.
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His bid to obtain drugs was thwarted when the hospital pharmacy recognised the bogus name.
The Sun
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It appears, however, that the term bogus is more straightforward.
What the British Chiropractic Association - and English Libel Law - should do next
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A new Act will guarantee sanctuary to genuine refugees but prevent bogus applications for asylum.
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_calabogus_ in Newfoundland, and -- soda-water in the United States, I desired to complete the bibulous cosmos, in which _koumiss_ was still lacking.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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He controlled a string of firms, which sent thousands of bogus invoices to hospitals for the services of locum doctors.
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The critical judgments are venturesomely banal ( "In countless variations, both fictional and dramatic, he studies illusions destined sooner or later to be shattered against the trivialities of everyday life"), and the psychological probings, full of self-congratulatory assumptions about Chekhov's motivations, unconsciously resemble, at times, Nabokov's parody of the "scholar" who writes the bogus preface to Lolita.
Short Reviews
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He didn’t know how to use an interface or call a hovercar, and his handmade clothes would always look pretty bogus at a bash.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
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Up to 700 cases may now have to be reviewed because of the bogus opinions he proffered.
Times, Sunday Times
