Posted on 08/05/2010 1:54:30 PM PDT by neverdem
Go ahead and publish your book, Doc. I doubt many will want to read it.
“If he was just wrong then he may get a second chance but instead he went out of his way to sell BS as fact. He doesn’t get one from me.”
I agree with you HGC. Remember, they believe it is a crime only if they get caught. This was not an “Ooops, my bad!” This is someone who has offered a rendition as an objective truthful representation of the original, when it has been proven to be grotesquely altered with deviously calculated misrepresentations artfully designed to intentionally deceive. It will not “if” but “when” he resumes his true colors. Will there be any diligent people left to catch him next time? Folks, it is time to stop talking about shades of gray. Right or wrong. Left or right. Call a spade, a spade.
If true, Bellesiles is confirming what we always knew about his book Arming America, it wasn't shoddy work, it was a lie pure and simple.
I doubt it. A zebra doesn't change its stripes.
“Of course he has a future. It includes the question “Would you like fries with that?”
HaHaHaHa! Great line.
“I would like to think that the scholarship I am producing will demonstrate that I am a competent, capable historian and I always have been.”
This man isn’t producing scholarship- he’s producing bulls**t. I don’t care what he likes- as a historian, your job is to present the facts accurately. It’s called objectivity. His first book was total garbage, and the logical conclusion is that all of his others to come will be.
Does Disgraced “Historian” Michael Bellesiles Deserve A Second Chance?
Does that future involve living under a bridge?
Yes, he will certainly be welcome to edit and post Wikipedia articles.
NO....never.
Let him apologize, publish an acocunt of his errors, denounce his own use of political agenda to shape history, and then I may forgive him.
Lock him up next to Ward Churchill.
I don’t have a problem with him publishing a book... as long as the crayons are included.
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Thanks for the link.
Belles isles. Does he pronounce that like...Belial?
No. He didn’t just make an innocent mistake, which could happen to anyone guilty of shoddy research and ideological prejudice. His was a quite deliberate and calculated deception, and his future must be considered outside academia and/or serious research.
Wouldn’t this be the third chance?
I searched "Michael Bellesiles" pronounced on Yahoo.
I got "buh-LEELS" or "buh-LAYELS," Bell-eel, buh-LEEL, 'b'leel,' buh-LEEL and Bell-Leel on the first page.
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