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Saturday, October 26, 2002
Spam for the Holidays
View a greetings card and spam everyone you know....Guerilla marketing tactics spawn viral fears. [The Register] via [
Source: Ye Olde Phart]
Dis-Arming America
Emory University has thanked Prof Bellesiles for his good service and sent him on his way after an investigation found him guilty of misrepresentation and falsification of data and engaging in unprofessional conduct regarding the research for his anti-gun historical treatise, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture.
Bellesiles misrepresented statistically significant portions of his data, reached conclusions the data didn't support, and then published a lengthy political treatise polemic under the guise of scholarly work. This is an unfortunate incident, but the controversy won't end here. Gun control is a religion -- it requires faith and little else. (Read Belleisles' statement on the investigation.)
Disarming a populace is a silly premise on its face, since total, unilateral, unequivocal removal of arms from the planet is impossible. The best possible result is that honest, innocent people are left defenseless against the savage and corrupt. But many still insist on pursuing it. I wish it could be different. But it's not...
The Boston Glode page was gone when I checked. See the original Emory press release instead.
Historian Michael Bellesiles, author of a controversial book on guns in early America, has resigned from his post at Emory University....Boston Globe [
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