New Expose Reveals Where Professor Churchill Got False Claim Of US Army War Crime

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[MindBender26]

One more nail....

[uscabjd]

Can smallpox be passed this way?

[uscabjd]

Can smallpox be passed this way?

[MizSterious]

Funny you should mention this. When I heard that he had made this claim, I had to search my memory for where I had heard it before--or actually, seen it before. It was indeed in a movie when I was a mere tadpole. It might have even been in more than one movie.

[patton]

Yes, and the Brits really did do it.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

What's the latest on CU actually doing something about this fraud?

[midwyf]

Yes, especially to those who had never had any exposure, and it was done inadvertently a few times on a small scale. Interestingly enough some of the back to nature,environmental hippies today refuse to get their kids immunized against the disease. I have no idea how long the disease can stay alive, but if an old grave washes out and that person died of the disease.........

[MindBender26]

Exactly where I got the memory from too. Saw it at summer camp, back in the mid-50s!

[ken21]

whatta laugh!

tv corrupting academia.

tv viewers often have a fabricated view of american history.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Hadn't heard his claim, but as I read this thread, I thought I remembered the movie plot from when I was very, very young. I guess Churchill who is about my age (looks older, to say the least) has a very vivid imagination and he can't distinguish between what's real and what isn't. Too much pot, dude!

[Ed_in_NJ]

Maybe Psycho Ward can get a job as Historian at Evil Willie's Liebury.

[Calusa]

whatta laugh! tv corrupting academia. tv viewers often have a fabricated view of american history.

Not so funny. I think great swaths of society are really under the sway of the the entertainment elite. A lot of my personal 'research' on history has been motivated by my complete refusal to believe some the ridiculous and prejudicial concepts espoused under the auspices of the Hollywood 'wisdom'. Most of our neighbors live in a dream world. On Lord Jeff I found this

http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

Not really conclusive.

[MindBender26]

see #8

Great Minds.......

:~)

[Congressman Billybob]

Ward Churchill's career of work is both excellent and original. But the part that is excellent is not original, and the part that is original is not excellent. Beyond the quip, Churchill is academic garbage, so much so that even his fellow academics will notice the stench, and drag him to the curb.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Hunting the Great White ... Minivan"

[SandRat]

CU is doing

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[Christopher Lincoln]

Undoubtedly, provided you don't mind getting the disease yourself. If you do, then it gets difficult.

[Dave Olson]

Churchill is academic garbage, so much so that even his fellow academics will notice the stench, and drag him to the curb.

I'd like to see that, but unfortunately it may not happend anytime soon. A couple of months ago, one of CU's Board of Regents said that even if all these allegations against Churchill prove to be true, it could take 2 1/2 years to fire him. And by that time he could retire anyway.

[Smokin' Joe]

This epidemic was believed to have been brought in in blankets. However, the infection was supposedly accidental, and not a military action.

read about the Mandan in 1837

[The_Reader_David]

Well, yes and no.

Lord Amherst's action was not a germ warfare attack, but a severely misguided act of charity.

At the time the 'contagion theory of disease' was disfavored because it was viewed as 'blaming the vicitim'. The blankets belonging to smallpox victims were 'surplus', and were given to the Indians as charity.

Unfortunately, then as now, what was 'politically correct' was seldom true, and smallpox really is spread by a contagious infectious agent, and the Indians, having no previous exposure to the agent, died in droves.

(The claim that American Indians were devasted by European diseases is almost certainly true, though it was not an intentional action, but the same effect as when a novel variant of the flu sweeps through a population never exposed before. And most of the damage was already done before significant English settlement--the disease spread around the continent from the Spanish colonies.)

[patton]

That's one interpretation... ;)