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12/18/2002 Archived Entry: "bellesiles out"

A LIBERAL BITES THE DUST

There just might be justice in the world, after all. The following is from Inside Politics in the December 17, 2002 Washington Times.

Biting the bullet
"Columbia University has rescinded Michael Bellesiles' Bancroft Prize," James Taranto notes in his Best of the Web Today column at www.opinionjournal.com.
"Bellesiles won the award last year for his book, 'Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture,' which claims privately owned guns were rare at the time of America's founding. The Columbia board of trustees 'concluded that he had violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners,' says a Columbia statement released Friday. Bellesiles earlier lost his job at Emory University after an investigative panel there found 'evidence of falsification' and 'serious failures of and carelessness in the gathering and presentation of archival records and the use of quantitative analysis.'
"Columbia made the announcement on Friday — the usual day for embarrassing news — and the New York Times buried its coverage on page four of the Saturday business section."

As a right-wing wacko gun nut, I'm glad to see that at least one liberal fraud (is that redundant?) got what he deserved.

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