Comments on: Peer review and Bellesiles’ essay http://erinoconnor.org/2010/07/peer-review-and-bellesiles-essay/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:07:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: AYY http://erinoconnor.org/2010/07/peer-review-and-bellesiles-essay/comment-page-1/#comment-10135 AYY Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:28:14 +0000 http://erinoconnor.org/?p=1948#comment-10135 Edge of the West has a post on this. See http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/more-bellesiles/#comments According to the commenters, the student made some inaccurate statements to Bellesiles. Edge of the West has a post on this. See http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/more-bellesiles/#comments
According to the commenters, the student made some inaccurate statements to Bellesiles.

]]> By: Katrina http://erinoconnor.org/2010/07/peer-review-and-bellesiles-essay/comment-page-1/#comment-10105 Katrina Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:06:51 +0000 http://erinoconnor.org/?p=1948#comment-10105 The whole thing is ridiculous. I thought it was amusing when one of the initial commenters to Chronicle piece said something like "isn't it a travesty, that such a committed professor doesn't have a tenure-track job".... and then a couple of people pointed out Bellesiles' track record! The Chronicle do seem to be dragging their feet about checking the story though. In the same week in which they ran a story saying that penalties for plagiarism should be stiffer for students, I will be interested to see how they respond if the story is a fake. It reminds me in some ways of the Orlando Figes debacle: another scholar who had no need (beyond his own psychological impulses one assumes) posted lies online, and was busted. But Figes (as far as I can tell) still has a job. Part of the challenge faced by academia right now (especially the humanities) is defending our relevance, and in many cases justifying our funding. By publicly tolerating these kind of hijinks (when people in other industries have been just as publicly canned for things they have written on facebook and twitter), academe shoots itself in the foot once again. The whole thing is ridiculous. I thought it was amusing when one of the initial commenters to Chronicle piece said something like “isn’t it a travesty, that such a committed professor doesn’t have a tenure-track job”…. and then a couple of people pointed out Bellesiles’ track record! The Chronicle do seem to be dragging their feet about checking the story though. In the same week in which they ran a story saying that penalties for plagiarism should be stiffer for students, I will be interested to see how they respond if the story is a fake.

It reminds me in some ways of the Orlando Figes debacle: another scholar who had no need (beyond his own psychological impulses one assumes) posted lies online, and was busted. But Figes (as far as I can tell) still has a job. Part of the challenge faced by academia right now (especially the humanities) is defending our relevance, and in many cases justifying our funding. By publicly tolerating these kind of hijinks (when people in other industries have been just as publicly canned for things they have written on facebook and twitter), academe shoots itself in the foot once again.

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