The Writing of Iranian Medical History

It has come to my notice that in recent years, several young writers of Iranian Medical History have tended to exaggerate the achievements of ancient Iranian physicians and have attributed to them discoveries for which there is no factual evidence. This NLQ more modest historical achievements to be justly proud of. Furthermore, these authors ‘quote’ references which are pure fabrications on the part of the authors and the original sources do not contain such statements. A corollary of such a practice is that unsubstantiated statements become repeated and copied in subsequent writings of one article to the next and so these untruths become established in the literature as ‘factoids’