The phrase "intellectual fraud" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person or idea that presents themselves as intellectual or knowledgeable but is actually deceptive or dishonest. Example: The author's acclaimed book was revealed to be an intellectual fraud when it was discovered that he had plagiarized several passages from other works.
This is a pure intellectual fraud that allows banks to take more risks in the "tails".
The Senate sponsor is James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who recently claimed that the supercold winter proves that theories about global warming are "an intellectual fraud".
As if to prove the point, he adds actual people – his publisher (who has the precious NetJets corporate card) and a Florentine museum official – to his otherwise phantasmagoric cast; the mixture is not fiction but an intellectual fraud.
"Some of these guys called me and said, 'Is it all right to put these tapes -- "Great Moments in Baseball," "Great Moments in the Ring" -- on the shelves,' and I said, 'That's legitimate.' " Where Mr. Fahringer saw ingenuity, Mr. Fishner saw intellectual fraud.
Credit given to authors helps avoid cases of plagiarism and intellectual fraud.
Taleb in his book calls the bell curve "that great intellectual fraud" and explains the situations that don't demonstrate a bell curve.
As a consequence it is an inconvenient truth that all proposals or efforts at the local, national or global levels to solve the problems of global warming are serious intellectual frauds if they fail to advocate that we address the fundamental cause of global warming namely overpopulation.
He thinks Bohr perpetrated one of those monstrous intellectual frauds that every now and then slip through the asylum gates and confuse people for decades.
This is the state of the GOP ― a refuge for intellectual frauds and bullies, for mean-spirited hypocrites who preach personal responsibility yet excuse the inexcusable".
This ties into Clance and Imes' exploration of Imposter Phenomenon; the belief held by individuals (predominantly women) that they are intellectual frauds who may be exposed at any time.
Last week the Argentine literary world was shaken by the news that Katchadjian has now been formally charged with the un-literary sounding crime of "intellectual property fraud".
