HISTORY FRAUD seems to be rampant in that academic profession. Erin O'Connor's June 19 blog is about a new book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History by Keith Windschuttle. As reported by O'Connor and in the Melbourne Herald Sun, various Australian historians have made up stories about British soldiers killing Tasmanian aborigines in the early 19th century. This isn't a matter of misinterpretation, or relying on unreliable sources, or even getting numbers a little wrong; it is like the Belleisle's gun book, the invention of cites to specific sources that turn out not to exist.

What is wrong with academic historians. It seems they can't write, and also that they can't even report facts honestly. That is not true of all of them, of course, but it is common enough that the field ought to be ashamed.

[ http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/03.06.19a.htm ]

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