[FreeTally]

Also, I think there is a question that has not been properly addressed. The author spent a great deal of time writing a book that he knows is a fraud. What is the motivation to do so? I think the proper question is "Who wants Americans disarmed so badly that they would get this guy to spend all this time concocting fake research?". Find out where his funding came from and who specifically authorized/asked him to "research" gun history.

[Cicero]

I think the answer to your question is that the road to power, fame, and wealth in academia is to say what the politically correct want to hear, not to speak the truth. Belisle would have known that a book of this kind would be warmly welcomed and rewarded by the academic establishment--as indeed it was, and still is, even after it has been shown to be full of lies. This isn't the only instance. Professors who write bad but politically correct books do better in their careers than professors who write good but politically incorrect books. That is a fact of life, which is obvious to the careerists who infest academia today.