About the editor: The Times found even more examples of apparent plagiarism from USC oncologist Dr. David Agus exposed.

As a well-known textbook author in the 1970s and 1980s, I know how difficult it is to write research-based books and how much effort it takes to proofread them.

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Review and credit work by other authors. By the time the author submits the manuscript, he can recite almost the entire book.

Agus hired a ghostwriter instead, and judging by your article, he doesn’t seem to

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reviewed the manuscripts submitted to Simon & Schuster.

Almost as chilling as Agus’s plagiarism are the closing paragraphs of this article, which quote Lisa Flash

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er, president of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, said Agus immediately notified his colleagues of the situation and

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the institute does “incredible work at the highest level”.

Parents, what does a USC faculty member like Agus teach your child? That is, if he ever manages to get to class and teach.

Phyllis Specht, Pasadena

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About the editor: As an author of unpublished articles for the past eight years who is considering publishing a book, I am angry with the “author”, his ghostwriter and his publisher for publishing these heavily plagiarized books. You all know better than to publish without attributing someone else’s work.

Did Agus read one of his own books and said to himself

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Are these not my words and thoughts?

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He is responsible for every word. One has to wonder, however, whether he himself read any of it.

If the man whose name

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Front and center of the books, is he not the arbiter of what appears in them? If the Times found out

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over 200 passages in Agus’ books

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almost identical to previously published works, couldn’t Simon & Schuster have done the same?

Among other things, Agus disgraced himself, the institution he directs, the university he represents, and his publisher.

Richard Z Fund, Sherman Oaks