From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 19:30:15 MST
While at the same time, Michael Bellisiles of Emory University, who
wrote the political polemic "The Arming of America", which tried to
prove via colonial and early US state probate and other county records
that gun ownership was rare in the early US, and widespread ownership
was only an invention of mid 19th century newspapers and bad
historians, has been found guilty of academic dishonesty by an
independent committee of nationally recognised historians. It was found
that he invented his data, falsifying records that did not exist and
lying about the numbers in records that did exist. He has apparently
since resigned his position on the faculty of that institution.
--- Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net> wrote:
> A legal friend writes:
> ====================
> This does put rather a different light on things:
>
> http://www.forsk.dk/uvvu/nyt/udtaldebat/bl_decision.htm
>
> Incidentally, as I read it, Lomborg has technically been found
> *innocent* of
> the charges. The Danish committees observe that publication of the
> book was
> not good scientific practice, but it appears that their only job,
> technically, was to find whether complaints of scientific dishonesty
> should
> be upheld. The test for that has both an objective element about the
> content
> of the material and a subjective element about the state of mind of
> the
> researcher (requiring either deliberate dishonesty or gross
> negligence). The
> subjective element was not found in this case. Thus, Lomborg has been
> criticised, but not found guilty of scientific dishonesty.
>
>
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