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15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Disgraced 'Historian' ... · 0 replies · +4 points

Obviously, Bellesiles is a fraud. That said, there's a lot more fact-checking that needs to be done before calling him out on this.

1) His name is in the factory directory at CCSU, at least in one spot.

2) Obviously, looking for "Javier" isn't going to produce anything, as he (very appropriately) changed the names.

3) Looking for Connecticut fatalities proves nothing, as he never states that "Ernesto" is a CT native.

Is the story real? Who knows? It certainly reads like a fiction from someone supporting a point, and there are details about which I have great skepticism, but this "debunking" article doesn't come close to actually debunking it...