Every time I see an article like this one:
Guns and 'Slander': Who is lying to whom?
http://www.unionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=13668
from the New Hampshire Union Leader, I am reminded of the glacial pace at which Emory is (not) dealing with a blatant case of academic deceit. I have been following this case for around two years, and am flabbergasted that you and your department still have not taken appropriate action to remove this scoundrel. Oh, well, at least you've suspended him.
Frankly, your credibility is right there with Enron executives, Arthur Anderson auditors, and Department of Education accountants.
Good day.
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Wow. Must be nice to be rewarded with a paid vacation just for tarnishing the reputation of your employer. Doesn't seem to work out here in the private sector, alas.
Thomas Jefferson, by no means an imprecise thinker, was well aware of this consideration. In commenting upon how the Constitution should properly be read, he said: "On every question of construction let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning can be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one which was passed.
Gee I wonder why this is?
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You would think that after all these years of the right shouting about the bias in the media and the loss of readers and viewers by the mainstream media they would get a clue.
You could think that...but you'd be wrong.
1) He'd never have gotten any beyond-academia mass-circulation book published.
2) No book he got published would ever have been reviewed in "mainstream" dailies.
3) He'd have had a damn hard time getting grant money - competing with the horde of others.
4) He'd have been fired or forced to quit instantly when he was caught falsifying research.
Scandals of antigun politicians and activists - including Bellesiles fraud!