It has been an interesting saga to watch unfold as the world began focusing on the inflammatory essay written by one Ward Churchill - professor, self-professed Indian, and now widely accepted as a friend of the terrorists…
People are calling for his head, myself included, wanting to rid ourselves and our university of this "[I want the] U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether" maggot...
Thomas Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX, has written an article in which he shows that Churchill has committed research fraud, and very possibly committed perjury as well...
At issue is a “brief supporting a motion to dismiss charges” against Churchill and other activists, who were being tried for having disrupted a Columbus Day parade in Denver the year before…
Brown’s argument is documented and supported by fact, something that Churchill makes a habit of overlooking…
One has only to read the sources that Churchill cites to realize the magnitude of his fraudulent claims for them. We are not dealing with a few minor errors here. We are dealing with a story that Churchill has fabricated almost entirely from scratch. The lack of rationality on Churchill’s part is mind-boggling. Why would a tenured professor decide to make up data—perhaps the most scandalous possible abuse of the academy’s norms—especially when in the Amherst affair, Churchill had a verified example of precisely the type of incident he wanted to invoke for his polemic purposes? How did Churchill expect to get away with a fraud that is so easily detected simply by reading the sources he cites in his own footnotes?
The answer comes into focus when you consider that Churchill is not writing for a scholarly audience. He originally wrote this story to inflame the emotions of a jury. Churchill publishes the bulk of his essays in small left-wing presses or in obscure journals that lack a rigorous peer review. He is writing for a non-specialist audience that takes him at his word. Mainly, Churchill is writing for other Indian activists, and for the broader reading population of leftists…
The point, you ask?
The point is very clear – Ward Churchill is a fraud…Ward Churchill is a liar…Ward Churchill is a dangerous person in a position of influence...
It is very clear that he lied on his application to the university, claiming that he is a Native American when he is not...
Last night Churchill was doing an 'in-your-face' style of challenge to just about anyone he could think of because he had a supportive audience, stating "I do not work for the taxpayers of the state of Colorado. I do not work for (Gov.) Bill Owens. I work for you," Churchill told the cheering crowd. "I don't answer to Bill Owens. I do not answer to the Board of Regents in the way they think I do. The regents should do their job and let me do mine."
Oh Really??
Last time I looked, faculty members employed by a state university are being paid with taxpayer dollars...
Perhaps you believe, as David Horowitz does, that it would not be good policy to relieve professor Churchill of his duties over what he hatefully wrote in 2001...I happen to disagree with that opinion, but I also believe there is a stronger argument for showing the prof the door...
I am not talking about First Amendment rights…
I have seen people fired for giving false information on their employment application...for much less egregious atrocities than this...
If this is allowed to continue at the University of Colorado, we will be sending a terrible message to everyone – our youth, the world, and worst of all - to ourselves...
and that message will be: The truth matters not one whit…
DR
