Professor "Quits" After Anti-Gun Book Found Fraudulent

Washington Times ^ | 10/28/02

[11th Earl of Mar]

Michael Bellesiles, the history professor who wrote that firearms were rare in early America, has resigned from Atlanta's Emory University after an investigation found he "willingly misrepresented the evidence" in his award-winning book.

The three-person committee

[11th Earl of Mar]

Cool... Now we know what Peter Jennings's lead story will be tonight.

[Joe Brower]

[Paul Atreides]

I'm sure all of the Million Mammary Marchers are wailing about "What does it matter, if he was passionate about it?!"

[philetus]

The university allowed him to quit.
In truth he was fired.
It wasn't so much that he lied, but that he got caught.

[Bob]

"[H]is scholarly integrity is seriously in question,"

I don't think it's in question at all. He clearly doesn't have any scholarly integrity at all.

[Graewoulf]

I doubt that Peetah "Nobody out here likes you" Jennings will mention anything about this. Socialist revisionism must not be defeated by proponents such as Peetah.

[FreeTally]

The three-person committee — composed of scholars from Princeton University, Harvard University and the University of Chicago — found that Mr. Bellesiles' work showed "evidence of falsification," "egregious misrepresentation" and "exaggeration of data."

Nice sounding words used in place of simply saying "he made it up as he went along".

[ConservativeDude]

this is really a fantastic victory...I can't believe a Harvard and Princeton prof helped us here!

[wideawake]

Well, that's theoretically two million mammaries, if the statistical average of 1.9 mammaries per female is factored in.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Mr. Bellesiles ... criticized Emory's inquiry as "just plain unfair" for focusing on "one small part" of "Arming America."

Truth is only "one small part" according to the left. So small that they often completely forget about it.

[Graewoulf]

I missed that point! Harvand AND Princeton? Wow!

Once their respective deans find out, those profs will be very quickly shipped off THE LIBERAL PLANTATION think tanks of Harvard and Princeton!

[End The Hypocrisy]

>>tenured professor<<

In the past, Emory University has allowed flagrant faculty teaching misconduct to go on without even an admonishment. For example, folks would be very hard-pressed to find a worse lecturer and examiner than Emory's Ted Davis, a tenured "professor" who taught (and perhaps still teaches) European History there (mainly but not always on the Oxford campus). "Cosmic Ted" Davis would basically never lecture regarding the reading materials or what was to be tested. He often said things that were incoherent, and knowingly put students to sleep while collecting his paycheck and barely making himself available AT ALL for after class sessions. His tests would even cover material not covered, and he'd be unapologetic and even rude if folks called such mistakes to his attention. Cosmic Ted would even make fire kindling out of people's exams and papers before they could see what they lost points for, only for Emory's Oxford campus leadership (Mr. Shapiro) to say they didn't have a WRITTEN rule against such an improper practice yet. Basically NOTHING changed after students complained about Ted Davis, and the students who spoke out against this quack were stigmatized and downgraded by Emory faculty members who got brownie points by retalliating against anyone with the audacity to have challenged the Administration. And yet Emory turns up the heat on this OTHER tenured professor. What's with the double standard?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Talk about good news !
Emory University signaled some months ago that this guy was toast--they just couldn't bring themselves to make the cut, for all the bad publicity it would bring. I'm surprised this wasn't announced late Friday after most of the weekend papers were made up.

[rudypoot]

I can just hear Babs comment on this: "Who cares if it is all a lie, whoever wrote this should be writing his own history books!"

[xzins]

For what it's worth, when the guy put his trashy book out FREEPERDOM was all over it. They had it correctly pegged after just about one day's discussion.....lies upon misrepresentations upon lies.

Part of what I love about Free Republic.

[dfwgator]

This guy gets the Rigoberta Menchu Award.

[Plutarch]

Looks like the Professor is gunning for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a leftist fraud, which is qualification enough.

[That Subliminal Kid]

[Paul Atreides]

Not if you count just 500,000 of them...500,000 x 2

They may claim to have a million marching, but I don't believe it.

[Exeter]

"Mr. Bellesiles said...he could not "continue to teach in...a hostile environment."

Yeh, with all those annoying requirements for honesty, ethics, honor, truth, character, etc. it's no wonder he considered it a hostile enviroment. BTW, if the board that chooses the recepients for the Bancroft Awards doesn't demand that Mr. Bellesiles return his prize, what does that say about the value of its presentations? After all, even Milli Vanilli had to return their Grammys when it was learned they were bogus, too...