Today's Galileo? Oh, Please. Just Shoot Me (Bellisiles and guns. Again.)

Wall St. Journal ^ | Feb. 6, 2004 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

[IronJack]

This falls under the "I'm OK; You're Not" school of psycho-social dysfunction. You know, the one where all the world is wrong and you're just the misunderstood visionary ...

The sheer hubris of a dullard like this trying to compare himself to some of history's greatest minds. Only on the Left would such utter contempt for humility find a home.

[Buffettbassman]

now THAT...was well said!

[IronJack]

Hahaha! Thanks. But these left-wing primates make it sooooooo easy.

[martin_fierro]

[Riley]

These are people who believe that the end always justifies the means.

"So he fudged his research a little bit. So? Haven't we all, at some point? It's for the greater good. If it saves the life of *just one child*..."
Ad nauseum.

[Riley]

Soviet historians, it was said, could fearlessly divine the ineluctable future, but could never predict the ever changing past.

Priceless.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Already posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1072808/posts

[Pharmboy]

I searched under several words as it was titled in my online edition. They changed titles and that's why I didn't find it.

Thanks.

[neverdem]

I'm curious. Why did you post this article using as the title just part of the original subtitle? I'm not complaining because this fraud Bonehead Bellesiles needs as much exposure as possible.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1072808/posts

[Marauder]

I suspect that dog ate his notes.

Or flooded them.

[neverdem]

Some of the comments on this thread are a hoot. I'm glad Pharmboy did a good deed and that WSJ online's editors re-titled it.

[Pharmboy]

This is EXACTLY how it appeared in my online WSJ. The only thing I did was remove the DE GUSTIBUS eyebrow. I didn't think it added for FR purposes. But this was the headline.


DE GUSTIBUS
Today's Galileo?
Oh, Please.
Just Shoot Me

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

History has its fair share of persecuted geniuses, men who were ahead of their time and made to pay for it. There's the hemlocked Socrates, the house-arrested Galileo, the exiled Rousseau. And to this list of giants it seems that we are now expected to add the name of Michael Bellesiles.[snip]

[Madstrider]

Mr. Bellesiles's latest response to his critics. This 59-page pamphlet, "Weighed in an Even Balance," is a spirited attempt by Mr. Bellesiles to turn himself into the world's latest misunderstood genius.

The problem here is, why should we believe a word from someone who has proven himself to be a shameless liar? It's like being an employer, getting an application, and seeing that the applicant has listed Bill Clinton as a character reference: Why bother to call, when experience has shown you can't believe a word Bill Clinton says? If Bellesiles (or Bill Clinton) told you that the sky was blue, you'd begin to doubt your own eyes: "Hey, wait a minute -- maybe the sky is really purple ..."

Bellesiles did not merely misinterpret available data. The record clearly shows that Bellesiles not only willfully misrepresented available data but, in some cases, cited data that did not exist.

HE MADE STUFF UP! He's like that crackpot a few years back who bamboozled publishers into believing he had Hitler's diary. Bellesiles was not merely sloppy or inaccurate, he committed historic fraud.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Joe Brower]

[facedown]

BTTT

[B4Ranch]

Running for office? So far it sounds good.

[Blue Collar Christian]

"...credibility of all the libs..."

?

Liberals' intellect is what sells horoscopes. They read what they want to believe, and that settles it. There is no call for truth, just match the agenda and the propaganda is fact.

[Blue Collar Christian]

"...lodge a complaint with PETA because he mistreated the animal..."

...by feeding it BS.

Uh...teacher...my report was full of false history because my dog ate my research notes...yeah, that's it...so I just had to insert my opinion instead.

[hattend]

BTTT