Figes’s on-line alias was linked to his name and job, so it took one of his victims 10 minutes to figure out who the perpetrator was.
Orlando Figes, who was once charatcterized as a leading British historian...
This maronic behavior is not an isolated case among the men (and women) who praise themselves to be the intellectiual elite of humanity. We all remeber Ruth Padel's anonimous letters about Derek Walcott's alleged sexual misconduct. These letters prevented Walcott, the Nobel Prize winner, to become Poetry Professor at Oxford. Padel got the job, but in the end emails' author's identity was discovered and Padel resigned.
Ruth Padel, an eager poet...
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This also reminded us of a story that happened a few years back in Paris when professor Paul Godt, editor of International Political Science Abstracts (a publication of the International Political Science Association) wrote an email to his coleague, detailing a vicious conspiracy against a colleague. A copy of this mail was found in the copying machine by a student...
Paul Godt, the man who tought he could preach "goodness"...
It is unfortunate that you choose to perpetuate a completely false and unfounded lie, one which confuses victim and perpetrator. It was in fact a "vicious conspiracy" intiated by a disgruntled faculty member who maligned me (Paul Godt) in an anonymous fake letter to my professional association. When pursued, the "author" turns out not to exist. I wrote no e-mail "detailing a vicious conspiracy": I was the victim of one.
ReplyDeleteI guess the blogosphere has no "truth-meter." Who writes this garbage?
Please tell us more about "a disgruntled faculty member" who initiated this campaign.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how can a letter be at once "anonymous" and "fake"?
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