[Physicist]

Bellesiles’s malfeasance, although startling in its sweep, brazenness and apparently political purpose, actually reveals something heartening—a considerable strength in America’s scholarly community. Its critical apparatus is working. Scholars and their journals are doing their duty, which is to hold works of scholarship up to the bright light of high standards.

And that's absolutely that last thing that Mr. Bellesiles ever expected. My own astonishment is no less than his.

[The Raven]

>>And that's absolutely that last thing that Mr. Bellesiles ever expected. My own astonishment is no less than his.

I'm curious as to why you said this, I take it you think it's more widespread (rewriting history).

[SauronOfMordor]

Its critical apparatus is working. Scholars and their journals are doing their duty, which is to hold works of scholarship up to the bright light of high standards.

But only after Clayton Cramer and other pro-gun scholars loudly noted the non-existance of the emperor's clothes. It then became a matter of either cleaning house, or having all of academia shown to be members of a conspiracy of intellectual fraud