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"The report casts aspersion on my integrity as a scholar based on three paragraphs and a table in a six hundred-page book. It seems to me that raising uncertainties that question the credibility of an entire book without considering the book as a whole is just plain unfair."

Translation: "It's just not fair to question my integrity just because I fabricated a teeny-tiny major part of my evidence."

[CatoRenasci]

More importantly, the report only looked at very limited parts of the book, and those are the parts they cast aspersions on.

The report itself, if I read academic-speak as well as I did 30 years ago, is absolutely devastating. A graduate student who turned in work that flawed would have been tossed out in my time, and would never have been able to get into another graduate program of any kind. He should never work as a scholar again.