Antigun scholar Michael Bellesiles gets the boot.

The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 1, 2002 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

[Stand Watch Listen]

In March 2000, 47 law professors and historians sent a stiff letter to Charlton Heston, president of the National Rifle Association. They told him "the Second Amendment permits broad and intensive regulation of firearms" and urged him to move beyond such trifles as constitutional guarantees to "the real issue"--just how much regulation is needed to "prevent the killings and violence that plague our country today."

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Timocrat]

Maybe they can all sign another letter, this time condemning the "NRA's nightmare" not the NRA.

Yes and pigs will fly and the Democrats will condemn Clinton as a rapist."Not gonna happen" One more reason to ignore academia.

[jrp]

Another leftie lying to support the cause. SOP. At least this jerk got caught.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Memo to Mike Zuckerman at U of Penn:
Your credibility was just recalled.

[Puppage]

Does this mean that this poor excuse for a book now will reside in the Fiction Section?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

NO.
It'll be on the re-write desk at the New York Times.

[Joe Brower]

[scouse]

Yet another would sit on the committee that gave Mr. Bellesiles the prestigious Bancroft Prize.

They should take that back that prize and give it to Jimmy Carter

[Mr. Bungle]

If being wrong on the facts about anything actually mattered to leftists, they wouldn't be leftists.

Bellesiles will always draw a fat check from somewhere, regardless of his obvious fraud. Half the nation cares little, if at all, for the truth anymore. It's all about political positions. I'd like to think Bellesiles' exposure as a fraud (or John Lott's research) would change minds, but the chances of that actually happening are slim to none.

[Redbob]

No, Bellesiles' book will still be on the shelves, still be on the required reading lists, because it fits the liberal "scholars'" view of how the world should be. They don't let reality intrude overmuch into their worlds, and they'll certainly never go out of their ways to inform their students.
Think B's Bancroft Prize will be revoked?
Maybe, but not very likely.

As far as Emory is concerned, Bellesiles' only sin was getting caught!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.