tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345433.post108996462838127907..comments2009-10-05T19:18:21.436+01:00Comments on Early Modern Notes: Ouch; or, on exposing yourself to ridiculeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345433.post-1089999918998106412004-07-16T18:45:00.000+01:002004-07-16T18:45:00.000+01:00Ralph, I don't excuse myself altogether. It was cl...Ralph, I don't excuse myself altogether. It was clearly a huge and important story. Still, in summer/autumn '02 I *was* out on Planet PHD. I'm still not sure how much attention it did get here. The gun thing might not attract too much interest; but academic fraud's another thing altogether.<br /><br />...from Sharon. I just can't be arsed to sign in right now. (Neither can anybody else; I think it's time to install the Haloscan comments. Oh, and add an 'about me' link. Somebody else somewhere called me a grad student! Harrumph.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345433.post-1089998066496059392004-07-16T18:14:00.000+01:002004-07-16T18:14:00.000+01:00Ralph Luker here: You took that ribbing very nicel...Ralph Luker here: You took that ribbing very nicely and I suppose it was an American thing. Even so, historians in the U. S. went through a period in 2002 when we had 1) one major historian exposed for having misrepresented himself to his students over a very long period; 2) two major historians exposed for having committed plagiarism; and 3) the Bellesiles scandal in which we had conferred our highest prize on a book which appeared to be fraudulent. It was a difficult time -- hard to imagine that any English-speaking historian had missed it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345433.post-1089979912148789192004-07-16T13:11:00.001+01:002004-07-16T13:11:00.001+01:00That was me claire by the way.That was me claire by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345433.post-1089979895288620222004-07-16T13:11:00.000+01:002004-07-16T13:11:00.000+01:00"the infamous Michael Bellesiles a platform in the..."the infamous Michael Bellesiles a platform in their early issues." <br /><br />I have absolutely no idea who Michael Bellesiles is. This story reminds me of a Canadian flatmate who took the piss out of my Dad because he'd never heard of Ezra Pound. We then found that my flatmate had never of Idi Amin and my Dad had.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com