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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (31745)	10/10/2001 2:56:56 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 82486

I had the same trepidation when I was posting my post. It stuns me how much thinking of the hitherto unthinkable we're doing these days. Onward to the bananas!

To: E who wrote (31745)	10/10/2001 5:17:59 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

For some reason I always assumed you were in publishing. I do know you are against "fabulators". There is a major scandal that has been brewing in the world of academia and publishing. And your man Wills is on the side of the fabulator. Or, at least, he was. What do you think about the Emory history prof who gathered a Columbia U "Bancroft" prize for excellence and distinction in history for an anti-gun book that now appears to have been substantially fabricated? Both Emory and Columbia are very embarrassed. Seems Emory is now demanding that he defend his work, but the dog "et his research and the records he "used" didn't exist or he altered what they stated. It's all very strange. I wonder, if you are in the publishing world, if this is a big story yet. The WSJ and Boston Globe have given it prominent placement. amazon.com In the Globe, they recite Garry Wills' unfortunate review: ''Bellesiles has dispersed the darkness that covered the gun's early history in America,'' wrote historian Garry Wills in the New York Times Book Review. ''He provides overwhelming evidence that our view of the gun is as deep a superstition as any that affected Native Americans in the 17th Century.'' Poor Wills, he blew it big time. HUGE. boston.com And last week, Emory threw its thunderbolt at Bellesiles. At least one Northwestern prof is on the ball. Law prof dismantles book, proves the opposite is true: law.northwestern.edu