http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/academicfraud/ en-us Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:03:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059713/posts At the University of Chicago no man looms larger than Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate who led the “Chicago school” of economics and who died in 2006. When the university announced plans for a $200m economics institute in May, it seemed fitting that the centre should be named after him. But a small war broke out. On June 6th more than 100 faculty members wrote to the university’s president to protest against the institute. Armed with academia’s common weapons, indignation and verbosity, they said they were all “disturbed by the ideological and disciplinary preference implied by the university’s massive support... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059713/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:03:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687867/posts The level of “academic” discourse on the Middle-East reached a new low—quite a feat considering some of the old lows—when the notorious Jewish anti-Semite and Holocaust-justice denier Norman Finkelstein wrote a screed suggesting that I be targeted “for assassination” because of my views on Israel. The obscene article was accompanied by an obscene cartoon drawn by “Latuff”, a frequent accomplice of Finkelstein. The cartoon portrayed me as masturbating in rapturous joy while viewing images of dead Lebanese civilians on a TV set labeled “Israel peep show,” with a Jewish Star of David prominently featured. The cartoon aptly represents the content... Frontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687867/posts#comment Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:51:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585001/posts Last May, a Korean report in Science magazine prompted headlines around the world by declaring it had made tremendous advances in the heretofore disappointing field of embryonic stem cell (ES cell) research. It has now prompted much soul-searching in media land. “How could we have been fooled?” reporters are asking themselves in print. Well, wake up guys, because the major science and medical journals have been fooling you for years. And what appeared to be a trickle when I first wrote on it in 1999 has become a torrent. In fairness, for many submitted papers it’s quite difficult for journal... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585001/posts#comment Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:06:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569143/posts The fabricated evidence on human stem cells published by Hwang Woo-suk and colleagues had a life shorter than two years as scientific fact. In contrast, the infamous hominid remains of Piltdown Man announced in 1912 stood as real for nearly 40 years. Hwang Woo-suk et al.’s DNA evidence and photographs of human embryonic stem cells reportedly from a cloned blastocyst were “fabricated,” according to an international investigating panel convened by Seoul National University. The investigation sprang from questions about the cells and DNA evidence posted anonymously at Korea’s Biological Research Information Center. The SNU panel’s independent testing of evidence led... TSC Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569143/posts#comment Wed, 1 Feb 2006 03:50:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563230/posts In our secular, post-religious society, the figure of the cassock-clad priest has been replaced by that of the white-coated scientist. Dispensing wisdom from the laboratory -- his every word is awaited breathlessly by a world thirsting for knowledge. It's all very well having secular shamans, but when they're caught cooking the holy books once too often, the faithful start to get worried. Scientific fraud, like that perpetrated by South Korean stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo Suk, is not new. Newton did it; Dalton did it; even Sigmund Freud did it. In more recent times, IQ researcher Sir Cyril Burt committed fraud,... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563230/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548900/posts The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Proving science biasBy Patrick J. MichaelsPublished December 29, 2005 Advertisement Two recent events underscore the predictability of global warming distortion by those who gain from exaggeration. The events were the Montreal Conference of the Parties that signed the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. Both took place in early December.     The sheer volume of hype was impressive. Following are the headlines, along with sources, generated on the afternoon of Dec. 7, first from the Montreal U.N. conference. (University news sources are those... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548900/posts#comment Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:38:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420014/posts Embattled Colorado Professor Files Complaint Against Texas Detractor The Associated Press Published: Jun 9, 2005 BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, whose essay comparing some Sept. 11 victims to Nazis led to an investigation into his scholarship and ethnicity, has filed a complaint against one of his accusers. Churchill's complaint to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, accuses assistant sociology professor Thomas Brown of academic misconduct. Brown has alleged Churchill fabricated crucial details in his argument that the Army committed genocide against Indians in the 1800s. In an e-mail to The Denver Post Wednesday, Brown said Churchill... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420014/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419371/posts Special report: The Churchill files The charge: Misrepresentation Are Ward Churchill's claims of American Indian ancestry valid? Our findings: Genealogical records, DNA dont support assertions. By Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News June 9, 2005 Eleven-year-old Joshua Tyner was hiding in a tree near his family's backwoods Georgia home when marauding Indians shot him and he fell dead to the ground. That's how the old family legend goes. So much for old family legends. Searching for a link: Ken Tyner, 64, of San Diego, is a distant relative of Ward Churchill. Tyner underwent DNA testing last year and found that his... Rocky Mountain News Special Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419371/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418662/posts The charge: Mischaracterization Did Ward Churchill portray two federal Indian laws incorrectly? Our findings: His claims about Dawes, Indian Arts acts are wrong. By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News June 8, 2005 Spelling it out: Ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill says that the Dawes Act of 1887, a copy of which is shown at the CU Law Library, established a "blood quantum" to define Indian identity on racial grounds. But the law, which resulted in one of the nation’s most duplicitous land grabs, contains no mention of a blood quantum. At the center of Ward Churchill's scholarship is his steady... Rocky Mountain News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418662/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417978/posts The charge: Plagiarism Did Ward Churchill publish the work of others as his own? By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News June 7, 2005 On the banks of the Nisqually River, just before it pours into Puget Sound, is a place as important to American Indian sovereignty rights as the bridge at Selma and the high school in Little Rock are to the civil rights movement. The place is Frank's Landing. Rights battle: Yakima Indians check their nets on the Columbia River near Lyle, Wash. Ward Churchill and Canadian professor Fay Cohen have studied Indian treaty fishing rights and the "Fish... Rocky Mountain News Special Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417978/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:34:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417790/posts The charge: Fabrication Did Ward Churchill falsely accuse the U.S. Army in small pox epidemic? Our findings: His claim isn't supported by the sources he has cited. By Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News June 6, 2005 The year was 1837, the place was the Upper Missouri River Valley in present-day North Dakota, the disease was smallpox, and the effects on American Indians were devastating. None of that is in dispute. One key fact is: how the disease got there. Numerous historical accounts put the blame in the same place - infected travelers on a steamboat bound for a trading post... Rocky Mountain News Special Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417790/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:14:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417786/posts University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill fabricated historical facts, published the work of others as his own and repeatedly made false claims about two federal Indian laws, a Rocky Mountain News investigation has found. The two-month News investigation, carried out at the same time Churchill and his work are being carefully examined by the university, also unearthed fresh genealogical information that casts new doubts on the professor's long-held assertion that he is of American Indian ancestry. The findings come as Churchill is, essentially, on trial — in the court of public opinion and in the halls of academia. Prickly debates... Rocky Mountain News special report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417786/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:04:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1381506/posts Case Summary - Eric T. Poehlman . Handling Misconduct . [Federal Register: March 24, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 56)] [Notices] [Page 15092-15095] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr24mr05-57] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of the Secretary Findings of Scientific Misconduct AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case: Eric T. Poehlman, Ph.D., University of Vermont: Based on the report of an investigation conducted by the University of... Federal Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1381506/posts#comment Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:18:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1354439/posts We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1354439/posts#comment Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:15:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353925/posts University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill makes a point during a lecture in Whitewater, Wisconsin March 1, 2005. Churchill spoke at UW Whitewater as part of Native Pride Week. REUTERS/Allen Fredrickson Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353925/posts#comment Wed, 2 Mar 2005 04:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352821/posts The details have been set. The protest is starting at 6 PM at Whitewater. More details are at http://www.thewheelerreport.com/releases/Feb05/Feb22/0222whitewater911.PDF I want to know who is coming http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352821/posts#comment Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:56:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343885/posts The University of Oregon has canceled plans to have Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor under fire for calling victims of the 9-11 attacks "Little Eichmans," speak at an on-campus symposium. Churchill was scheduled to give the keynote lunch address at a symposium titled "Homeland 'In'Security: Race, Immigration and Labor in Post-9/11 North America," a joint presentation of the University of Oregon's Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the Center on Diversity and Community, the school's Oregon Daily Emerald reported. According to the report, the directors of the program nixed plans for Churchill and his colleague, Natsu... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343885/posts#comment Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:30:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341938/posts I sent the following article to Soldier of Fortune Magazine it was sent to me by Freeper RedDaring. It is the famous 1987 article where Ward Churchill claims to have taught the Weathermen to build bombs. In the same story, Churchill claims that he worked for Soldier of Fortune Magazine and that the editor, Lt.Col. Robert K. Brown, USAR (Ret.) verified his military record. Article: http://www.khow.com/img/churchill-scan.html This is the Colonel’s response: “Frank (Soliton): Thanks for forwarding this to me. I had not read this article and as for me checking that scumbag's military record, that's a lot of bullshit just... First Person http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341938/posts#comment Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:34:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340411/posts Controversial University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, who compared victims of the 9/11 attacks to Nazis says he's "not backing up an inch," insisting, "I owe no one an apology." Speaking at his university last night, Churchill said he not only had the right, but "indeed the obligation" to make the comparison. Meanwhile, questions are mounting about who Churchill actually is. He's built a career in part on his claimed Native American heritage, but a genealogical study by the Rocky Mountain News has found no Native American ancestors in his family. And a fellow researcher has looked into questions about... Special Report with Brit Hume - The Grapevine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340411/posts#comment Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:10:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340417/posts Two scholars say Churchill's work strayed from facts on two issues University of Colorado officials reviewing Ward Churchill's writings and qualifications will find questions about his scholarship and accuracy dating back at least eight years. "If he is going to get fired, it is going to be for making up data, and that's one thing you can't get away with in the academic community," said Thomas F. Brown, who holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins and is an assistant professor of sociology at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Brown is one of two professors at different universities who have published... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340417/posts#comment Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339484/posts A Churchill By Any Other Name By Robin Mullins Boyd February 9, 2005 Ward Churchill shares his surname with one of the pre-eminent figures in world political history, Winston Churchill. That is where the similarities end. The media has been in an uproar since Ward Churchill was "disinvited" to speak at Hamilton College in NY. The invitation was retracted after the public was made aware of the professor's anti-American screed about the September 11 tragedy. The University of Colorado has since started proceedings to evaluate whether Churchill should continue in his tenured position at the university. The uproar centered on... GOPUSA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339484/posts#comment Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:42:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339098/posts An environmental studies instructor whose classes have been canceled by the University of Colorado says she was denied reinstatement for political reasons. Adrienne Anderson, who has taught CU courses critical of big-business environmental policy for 11 years, was effectively let go when the department of environmental studies voted Jan. 31 to cancel her courses after this semester. Anderson said big-business pressure was part of her removal because her students' work often targeted companies with poor environmental records. "If those corporations were acting within the law, my course would be continuing at CU," she said Monday. James White, director of the... Daily Camera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339098/posts#comment Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:13:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338944/posts Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who prompted a national furor by condemning 9-11 victims as "little Eichmanns" and praising the terrorists for their "gallant sacrifices," went to federal court today to challenge the school's cancellation of a speech he was scheduled to give tonight. On Monday, CU administrators announced they had canceled Churchill's planned speech because of security concerns, reported the Denver Post. Earlier this month, Hamilton College in upstate New York canceled a speech by Churchill because of death threats against the professor and its administrators. Regardless of what the judge decides, students of Churchill, an ethnics... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338944/posts#comment Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:26:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338838/posts Apparently, someone has been fact-checking Ward's scholarship and finding that he's fabricated facts. See for yourself. Lamar University compliments of Lonestartimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338838/posts#comment Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:54:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335712/posts A conservative commentator holds Churchill accountable for his ridiculous comments and doesn't let up. This interview was good to listen to in that Churchill defines what is wrong in our educational system. KOA Radio in Denver http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335712/posts#comment Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:53:52 GMT