Posted on 08/05/2010 1:54:30 PM PDT by neverdem
Hilarious!
Is that right? What nerve.
Lefties, libs and demonrats CANNOT be shamed...if you need any proof of this, read any quote in the last month or so from Charlie Rangel.
wow, I knew it was bad, but WOW....
The thing about scholarship, especially of any historical subject, is that there is a lot of “trust” involved b/c no one else is able or willing to monitor every single footnote and citation, even if the notes themselves point accurately to the sources of information (that alone can be a huge issue with someone like Bellesiles).
The most detailed footnotes are still worthless and deceptive if the text being written does not accurately and fairly represent the materials pointed to by the footnotes.
SO, no, one can never trust again a guy who proved so wildly contemptuous of elementary norms of historical scholarship. Short of doing every bit of research that he does to cross-check every line of his work, it can never be trusted at all......... and if others have to monitor his future writing/research in such ways then it cannot be trusted at all......
He's an adjuct lecturer at a third rate school no one's ever heard of. That's quite a demotion from full professor at Emory. It's the academic equivalent of an executive vice president at a Fortune 500 company getting demoted to graveyard shift manager at a Roy Rodgers.
Adjunct lecturers can be fired at any time. When money gets tight, they're the first ones let go. They're not on salary, but rather get paid per credit hour, which means they can't count on a steady income. They generally teach only the classes that the professors don't want, which means they end up with the dumbest students. They are also frequently called up to fill teaching gaps as they come up, such as when a professor goes on sabbatical, so they often have to prep for new classes they've never taught before. Unlike professors, they don't get teaching assistants, and they get the lowest priority from the clerical staff.
If that weren't enough, their pay sucks. I doubt an adjunct lecturer in history at a school like Central Conn. State makes much more than 30K a year.
In some sense, it is the exploitation of the lecturers that allows universities to make the jobs of tenure-track professors so cushy. Since I'm tenure track, I love it, but I wouldn't do a lecturer's job even if you paid me $500K a year.
If this guy is forced to work as an adjunct lecturer for the rest of his life, justice will have been done.
His publisher calls him a “celebrated historian.”
Yeah, it's called PR. Never believe the hype publishers put out about their authors.
NO!!
Not in his current role - maybe as a gay porn star or as worker in MacDonalds Then he deserves a 2nd chance
He’s a man of low calibre.
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