When
Michael A. Bellesiles published in 2000 his "Arming America: The Origins of a National
Gun Culture," it was a progressive's prayer answered.
Columbia University awarded him its prestigious Bancroft Prize, and
gun nuts everywhere gushed like a teen age boy on his first
petting
experience. Alas, it was soon proved that Bellesiles had made it
up.
FT
goes on to say that "there are transcription errors from the original
sources and incorrect formulas" in Piketty's spreadsheets. Worse, the
paper charges that some of the data was "cherry-picked or constructed
without an original source." The latter is a dire accusation if proven
accurate.
Columbia revoked its prize, and his employer, Emory
University, fired him. A rare thing for a puppet master wannabe.
Not
rare that he was found out, but that there was a penalty imposed.
Others, like climate gurus Paul R. Ehrlich and Al Gore, et. al.,
have
been proved wrong, and guilty of making stuff up so many times that
rational thought can no longer explain why they are still academically alive.
It falls to understanding that we are actually living in an Orwellian
world,
where government and allied media "firstly
create the problem; then
secondly fan the flames to get a reaction; then thirdly (like
Johnny-on-the-spot) provide a solution. The solution
is what they
wanted to achieve in the first place, but wouldn't have been able to
achieve under normal circumstances."
Does it matter when
people
discover they've been lied to? No, because it's now the law,
either
through farcial legislative process (see Obamacare), or "stroke of
the
pen" (Exec. Order) by a "Dear Leader."
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