Clearly it shpuld only be a question of time until this slimeball is stripped of any tenured faculty position and relagated to some other profession. The need for scholarship standards is one that must be addressed at all our academic institutions. Without standards of scholarship all we have is ignorance masquerading as knowledge and knowledge is the one essential to maintaining our world.
Of course the work is of this professor is a lie and any competent historian knows this. Emory University knows this. The flood is just a very lame excuse that not even an undergraduate would seriously attempt. He also could have said "The dog ate my notes." That was the point I was attempting to make. An Historian is at minimum supposed to be able to produce replicatable work. Anything less is a betrayal of the priciples embodied by the muse Clio.
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Stalin called genetics "Jewish science" or some such, and forbad its discussion. For years, Soviet "academics" were forced to pretend that there was valididty to absurd theories of inherited traits: become a body builder, and your kids will have bigger muscles and so on.
That's where we are heading: soviet style history. PC conclusion first, research....who cares.