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Gun Control & RKBA

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

7. Swiftboating by the NRA, huh?

Reply to jimmy the one (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 2, 2015, 09:53 AM

Mar 2015

Except it wasn't the NRA, it was the university at which he taught.

You know how I know?

YOU provided the link to the findings of their investigation on how shoddy his work was.

Lies to cover lies.

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Arming America [View all] Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 OP

witch hunting continued jimmy the one Feb 2015 #1

If he published that he counted records that do not exist Mojorabbit Feb 2015 #2

There's lots more to it than that- jimmy elided the damning conclusion... friendly_iconoclast Feb 2015 #3

board bigot speaks jimmy the one Mar 2015 #8

That fact that outright fraud cannot be established does nothing to diminish the fact Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #4

Thank you for admitting and providing PROOF of super crappy scholarshipon Bellesiles' part. NYC_SKP Feb 2015 #5

1877 jimmy the one Mar 2015 #6

Swiftboating by the NRA, huh? Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2015 #7

Yup, he was outed by fellow academics DonP Mar 2015 #9

for a better perspective jimmy the one Mar 2015 #10

The university did not bounce Bellesiles because of the NRA. They bounced him because REAL Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2015 #11

Wiener melm00se Mar 2015 #12

well, mel jimmy the one Mar 2015 #14

No, 'disassemble' is the right word, as in "took apart" friendly_iconoclast Mar 2015 #15

mea culpa jimmy the one Mar 2015 #17

I believe one Professor E. Clapton has best described what happened to Bellesisles... friendly_iconoclast Mar 2015 #18

response melm00se Mar 2015 #19

some valid criticism, no doubt jimmy the one Mar 2015 #20

respone melm00se Mar 2015 #21

More utter bullshit. GGJohn Mar 2015 #13

Don't you know that the NRA secretly controls both Columbia *and* Emory universities? friendly_iconoclast Mar 2015 #16

Bellisiles' book, IMO, crippled the academic status gun-controllers enjoyed... Eleanors38 Mar 2015 #22