T Fast wrote:
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> No no no. One has the "right" to be a "shoddy" scholar no matter what side
> you are on. It falls to scholars (or anyone else for that matter) on any
> side to point out the shoddiness of a scholar's work. There are a host of
> mechanisms built in to the academic process to deal with shoddy scholarship.
Let us consider a work as great as it is shoddy and inaccurate -- Bertrand Russell's _History [sic] of Western Philosophy." :-)
Carrol