Ward Churchill Fired

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"Do you, at an institution that has a fundamental role in basic research for our society, accept the continued presence of someone who shows a pattern of wanting to continue to falsify research?" Brown said.

well, properly quoting and digesting research by others should be matter of pride, not of contempt or falsification. I take pride in the fact my dissertations usually have to be cut in half because there are too many sources or footnotes with sources & remarks.

Does anyone really believe he was fired for reasons of academic integrity?

No less than Nazi minister Rosenberg was at once an outcast because Hitler & other Nazis of more "traditional" German racist persuasion did not like his inclusion of slavic intellectuals among his "brain trust". Well, set aside the old idea countries have their "national gospel", as far fetched & sharp-edged as the countries they claim to fight on moral higher grounds, i think it is much scarier that the establishment go in bed with such frauds ( giving credit to their thesis about research misconduct ) as long as they are mousey and contribute to "the cause".
Validation of my thesis might come from the fact Churchill's "paper", albeit published in the aftermath of the attack, failed to attract overzealous scrutiny for years.
It seems big brother practices the gang methods...
Akin to John Bear, Gregg des Elms, George Brown, Alan Contreras etc, who very likely might have know (some or all of them ) about Thomas Chip White (owner of degreeinfo.com ), big brother loves keeping files about everybody, and having friends whose closets are as full as its own, so it can eventually cheat & expose them.