Taking advantage of recognized scientific and political figures and quoting unreal statements are the main axis in psychological projection in the topic of elite emigration.

According to the information center of national elites foundation, one of the important topics in the field of news publication related to elite emigration is using the name of scientific or political figures and baseless and unfounded citations.

For instance, one of the claims is: Hamid Gourabi, head of Royan Research Center, warned the recruitment of Iranian scientists in the field of stem cells by other countries.

This quote comes were no such thing has been found in searches.

In addition, it should be reminded that Dr. Hamid Gourabi, the former head of Royan Research Center, at the same time as investments in other countries, including the Persian Gulf, expand, students of postgraduate studies migrate to other countries to complete their research.

In one of the claims, it is expressed: Professor Abbas Milani, the economic advisor of the UN, states: the brain drain in the last few years has damaged the Iranian economy 300 times as much as the Iran-Iraq war.

Now, even with the wrong default, if we consider immigration as a total loss, the damage caused by elite exit assuming all inaccurate text data, including incorrect data on elite immigrants' annual exit (180,000 per year!) and false estimates of government for each exited elite (one million dollars per person!), and its estimation for 40 years show that this damage is not even 10 times the damage caused by Iran-Iraq war.

Obviously, the emigration of elites and graduates is not always considered a damage, and in many cases, an immigrant workforce provides many benefits and services to a country.

These benefits come from the permanent or temporary return of elites to the country, the creation of human networks, the transfer of knowledge and technology, investment and remittances to the country of origin. On the other hand, Dr. Abbas Milani is not an EU economic adviser.

In an interview in 2010, Abbas Milani quoted the members of the education and research committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, stating: according to the commission announcement, the cost of leaving the elite is much more than the cost of an eight-year war.