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The phrase "alleged expert" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is claimed to be an expert but whose expertise is in question or not universally accepted.
Example: "The article featured an alleged expert on climate change, but many scientists disputed his claims."
Alternatives: "supposed expert" or "claimed expert".
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Instead, you're much more likely to encounter an alleged expert ranting about the evils of budget deficits and money creation, and denouncing Keynesian economics as the root of all evil.
Yet almost every alleged expert and share follower (I put myself in the latter category) attempts a guess, and this time the vast majority of forecasts that have come my way have been decidedly bearish.
Irving argued that an alleged expert on gassings like Leuchter could prove that the Holocaust was a "myth".
Later, when McAfee described an algorithm that could accurately predict the market value of a bottle of wine using only a few, mostly weather-based variables, there was an almost palpable glee about how "a good, old-fashioned equation," in McAfee's words, could replace the "refined palate" of "some alleged expert".
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Alleged experts say that is impossible.
A BBC Inside Out investigation this week prompted a huge reaction after a financial expert alleged that overall debts within the game topped £68.5m.
On cross-examination, she acknowledged she could not test for chloroform -- a chemical substance that prosecutors allege their experts found traces of in Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire.
Ministers misled parliament over the need to build a new fleet of nuclear power stations, distorting evidence and presenting to MPs a false summary of the analysis they had commissioned, a group of MPs and experts alleged in a report published on Tuesday.
Others are withholding judgment, but the second arrest — and the almost inscrutable behavior alleged against someone presumably expert in family law — have made it increasingly difficult to find people who are neutral, let alone willing to stand by him.
I could (and did) sit there for hours talking to the bartender, Yonaton, fresh from five years in the military and ready for university, and to Michael, a photographer, tech expert and alleged cousin to Abe Vigoda, and to Hannah, a Canadian immigrant with whom I discussed our complex feelings about Judaism over enough Goldstar lagers that I don't recall precisely what those feelings were.
But some experts have alleged that the company was using unsafe drilling methods, including failing to encase properly the exploratory shaft, and that this could have contributed to the disaster.
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