[lbo-talk] Churchill -- the ugliness deepens

KJ kjinkhoo at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 21:30:48 PST 2005


Some among you will be better able to evaluate -- the charge is now academic fraud, which removes it from the realm of freedom of speech:

http://hal.lamar.edu/~BROWNTF/Churchill1.htm

The Genocide That Wasn't: Ward Churchill's Research Fraud Thomas Brown Assistant Professor of Sociology Lamar University Beaumont, TX 77710 browntf at hal.lamar.edu

Abstract:

This is a work in progress that I am making available due to the current interest in Ward Churchill's writings. I show that Churchill has committed research fraud, and very possibly committed perjury as well. This article analyzes Churchill's fabrication of a genocide. Churchill invented a story about the US Army deliberately creating a smallpox epidemic among the Mandan people in 1837 by distributing infected blankets. While there was a smallpox epidemic on the Plains in 1837, it was entirely accidental, the Army wasn't involved, and nearly every element of Churchill's story is a total invention. My goal here was to show how and why Churchill engaged in such blatant fraud, and why no one has challenged him on it until now.



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