Sentence examples for bogus conferences from inspiring English sources

Many predatory publishers also now run bogus conferences, often with names similar to existing ones, to dupe researchers into submitting papers for a nonrefundable fee.

In the 1960s he campaigned against what he called the venal manipulations of drug companies - in particular, the all-expenses-paid bogus conferences for doctors, located at smart holiday resorts, where speakers would endorse the companies' new products.

I can buy disaffected scientists to deny sound science with a plane fare to a bogus conference and a little publicity.

For $1500, the company will arrange a great escape, sending you a fake conference agenda, a virtual hotel number complete with a phony 24-hour receptionist, and even bogus e-tickets, hotel and car rental receipts.

He had already been discredited during the last presidential election in 2011 after wrongfully taking the side of an extreme-right fringe movement called "birthers," holding press conferences to make bogus claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that his Hawaiin birth certificate was a fake.

It occurs within our political system where political leaders receive standing ovations when they downgrade our minorities as bogus and cheats," he told the conference.

Even the argument over whether Office is dead is bogus, a joke that became a conference that begat a series of endless reiterations of the first O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer conference known as Web 2.0.

Yarrington's Houston-based attorney, Joel Androphy, said in a news conference this week in Mexico City that the allegations against Yarrington were bogus and based on "false witnesses and testimony" by people attempting to make deals with the prosecution.

The newspaper said it had secretly filmed a member of Ms Atkinson's staff appearing to plot to make a "substantial bogus expenses claim", which reportedly more than tripled the original bill for a pre-conference Ukip function.

The protest began at 11.30 when two men, one an able-bodied man in a wheelchair, had attempted to gain access to the conference run by the charity Children Law UK, after registering as members of a bogus organisation.

They have all cited criminal charges hovering over him – arising from €2m (£1.8m) in EU subsidies allegedly obtained by his hotel and conference complex in rural Bohemia – which critics say exposes his anti-corruption credentials as bogus.