Posted on 10/28/2002 5:57:01 PM PST by Sabertooth
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:39:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Anyone really think a history prof his age would ever have had a mass-market book - had he specialized in the kind of topics history profs usually do? Anyone think that he'd have gotten all the free publicity for that book from the "mainstream" media, had it instead been a history of the corset industry in New York?
Also, the guy'd have been fired long ago - as soon as his fraud became evident - were it not for the political implications.
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Can't teach in a hostile environment!
Gimme a break and take a hike. Go get tenured at some other commie institution!
So it is, my mistake.
However, it's really a pain in the ass to search for previous postings when the original headline has been completely altered, rather than parenthetically modified. For example...
Professor "Quits" After Anti-Gun Book Found Fraudulent
Parentheticals don't interfere with the "exact phrase" FR search function, as can be seen here:
Yep!
Good!
And, there is nothing wrong with "random" gathering of data: in fact, this is quite scientific; it's called random sampling. These "scholars" speak of this is if it were a self-evident falsehood.
But then, we are dealing with historians, where "research" has an altogether different connotation.
Bellesiles, who is highly knowledgeable about weapons and military history, never comes out against guns. He is more interested in discovering the truth than in taking sides. Nevertheless, his work shatters some time-honored myths and icons--including the usual reading of the Second Amendment--and will be hard to refute. This fascinating, eye-opening account is sure to both inform and inflame the already highly charged debate about guns in America.
--Lesley Reed
If you read the source material, you will agree that what Mr. Bellesiles engaged in was far from "random sampling" both in intent and in effect, and therefore the conclusions that he tortured out of the data were anything but scientific.
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smell rotten - you're a liar
sweat liquor, breathe snot
eat mud, spit blood
diseased health hazard
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rotten mouth, tooth decay
hair matted, drunk all-day
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rot gut, scrambled brains
steal money, crash cars
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to your Master, off you go!
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Anyone can see!
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