[beckett]

Anybody who has been following this fiasco has got to read the complete exchange of charges and counter-charges between Sternstein and Bellesiles. It is priceless. Bellesiles is now denying that he ever authored certain emails that inconveniently undermine his present (and fluid) position on exactly how his probate research was conducted. Follow the "continue" link above first, and then read the two links at the top of the thread. The emails in question are included in Prof. Sternstein's response to Bellesiles (second link at top of thread).

[beckett]

You have been following this case, haven't you, BB?

[AnnaZ]

BUMPTTT!

 

HF ~ Bellesiles needs a special mention here: http://www.libertybelles.org/resources/hallofshame.htm

 

;^)

[PA Engineer]

Mr Bellesiles please tell us what is is?

bttt

[Hagrid]

This is not the first time Bellesiles has disavowed what he wrote. When the Boston Globe exposed his website report on probate records as fraudulent, Bellesiles claimed that the report he had been urging people to read for months was put there by someone else. Emory investigated and found that no one had hacked his website.

This guy's stories are not remotely plausible. Russell Baker called him "the Milli Vanilli of academic publishing." But the Grammys have higher ethical standards than academics do (Milli Vanilli, after all, had to give back their prize).

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this up. Initially, I wasn't going to read the basic material because I've had it up tohere with academics. I'm glad I followed your links, however.

The deeper one gets into l'affaire Bellesiles the clearer it is that he did not fake just parts of his research, he faked it across the board. As an author myself, I know with respect to every book I have publoished, when, where, and how I did the research for it. Sometimes I sweated bullets for weeks trying to track down one final point that was ecessary to the argument.

What I find most disgusting about Bellesiles is how his stories keep changing about his research. The places change not once, but repeatedly. The materials used change not once, but repeatedly. The bottom line conclusion is clear, this man and his book are both frauds.

Even his excuse, "the flood ate my homework," has been given in multiple versions to different people. At one time his notes were "drying out at home in Atlanta," Now he claims they were "carted away by the clean-up crew" with no notice to him.

This man should have the gold tassel cut off of his mortarboard and his gown stripped away, and be forced to leave Emory University at dawn down the ranks of his colleagues, all facing away from him. That's how they showed it in the opening credits of that ancient TV series The Rifleman, starring Chuck Conners.

At least, that's how they would do it if academics had a sense of drama, and shame.

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[Irene Adler]

One of this guy's (many, many) claims is that a whole lot of his notes from primary sources were ruined in a flood in his office. The "dog" ate his notes! The Sernstein article is detailed and devastating. Maybe he and Doris K. Goodwin could get together and co-author something.

[Djarum]

I have been following this story since the first press release. Bellesiles appears to be a pathological liar, as well as a fraud.