Here's what Emory University prof. Michael Bellesiles has to say: http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2001nov/bellesiles.html http://www.emory.edu/HISTORY/BELLESILES/
And that of critics: http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment112601.shtml http://www.gunowners.org/opagny02pt28.htm http://www.stats.org/newsletters/0201/gun.htm A good summary: http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=691 What we need, of course, are the full headers of that message. -Declan --- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: herror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The dog wrote my email part II To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-UIDL: 5f30a2a2ef91c0e6527ab26ee720e428 Declan, The Bellesille's phony scholarship case gets funnier. First it was records destroyed in a flood, then hacked a website. Now emails that catch him in lies must have ben forged. tom brennan phila pa original here: http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/25/3cc820eb8af19 Professor of History Michael Bellesiles Bellesiles insinuates professor forged e-mails in his name By Andrew Ackerman Asst. News Editor April 25, 2002 Professor of History Michael Bellesiles suggested this week that one of his main critics fabricated e-mails in his name. The accusation complicates an already confusing debate swirling over Bellesiles' award-winning book on gun culture in early America, which is now widely-considered fraudulent by academics who have studied Bellesiles' book. Bellesiles is the author Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture, which claims that guns were more rare in early America than previously thought. While the book was initially praised in its September 2000 debut for its innovative use of historical records to support Bellesiles' claim, the academic consensus has recently shifted against the book. Prompted partly by outside academic concerns, the University launched its own formal investigation in February into allegations Bellesiles engaged in research misconduct. As of Wednesday night, the University remains silent on its investigation, the first into the work of a College professor, though a public statement is expected any day. Bellesiles' accusations this week concern e-mails between him and James Lindgren, a law professor at Northwestern University (Ill.) and an expert on probate records. The e-mails, which Bellesiles seems to deny writing, were allegedly sent to Lindgren in the final months of 2000. In August 2000, Lindgren asked Bellesiles in an e-mail to explain where he found most of the probate records cited in Arming America. Bellesiles allegedly replied that the records he used were stored at the National Archives at East Point in southeast Atlanta. "The probate records are primarily on microfilm in the [East Point] federal archives," Bellesiles allegedly wrote in a message dated Aug. 31, 2000. But now Bellesiles denies that he wrote that e-mail -- after Lindgren learned no microfilmed probate records are housed at East Point -- which Lindgren forwarded to the Wheel and HistoryNews-Network.org, a historical Web site for historians. [...] For continuing coverage of the Bellesiles controversy, please see: * Emory announces outside panel to review Bellesiles' research http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/25/3cc89bcfe177d * E-mails may include lies http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/25/3cc821c6a1b9c ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
