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"Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss"
Salon.com has posted a thought-provoking piece by Gary Kamiya, which parallels in many ways ACTA's position on the seemingly endless Ward Churchill controversy. The piece lays out in layman's terms the breadth of Churchill's academic misconduct, making it clear that whatever political controversy Churchill may have engendered, his deliberate invention of facts and distortion of sources were unacceptable. After reading the litany of fraud Churchill committed and got away with, it is scary to think of future academics who may think that starting controversy is now an adequate substitute for legitimate research.
Posted by Noah Mamis on April 10, 2009 at April 10, 2009 03:54 PM
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I read the "Slate" piece, with the "it was Bush's fault" ending. A question that came to mind, as with Albert Gore Jr. and ecological science matters --
What does Mr. Churchill know about medicine? Smallpox? Of that era? Is that knowledge at the expert level?
I'd bet that he has very little actual knowledge. As they say on Fleet Street -- "facts just get in the way of a good story."
Posted by: F.D. Castle at April 11, 2009 06:11 PM