He Faked Their Pregnancies: The Doctor Who Manufactured Hope
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In this episode, we tell the record of that medical fraud from early claims about a baboon pregnancy through decades of patient care, the treatment protocol Jacobson used, and the legal outcome, asking how a respected title and a simple hormone injection allowed this scheme to operate in plain sight.
Person: Cecil Byran Jacobson
Date of conviction: 1992
Counts: 52
Location: Fairfax County, Virginia
Birth date: October 2, 1936
- Jacobson administered human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) injections as a fertility treatment that cause positive pregnancy tests.
- Experts testified that ultrasound images Jacobson showed patients contained nearby organs or fecal matter, not fetuses.
- Jacobson claimed in the 1960s to have implanted his sperm into a baboon that carried a pregnancy for four months; this claim was never published or peer reviewed.
- He held the title Chief of the Reproductive Genetics Unit at George Washington University Medical School but had no specialist training in infertility medicine.
- The fraud operated over years in a legitimate medical practice in Fairfax County before his 1992 conviction on 52 counts.
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