Research misconduct ruling on historian’s Holocaust affair claim

This is far from the only case of (apparent) misconduct in this field of literature. It is good to see standards of evidence being applied in academia.

So many troubling implications for research and academic freedom. For a fuller story, see http://newfascismsyllabus.com/opinions/in-support-of-difficult-history/

High profile authors in this field routinely refuse all peer review and when faced with pubic peer review immediately file lawsuits to all and sundry. The aim is to use publishing power to force through peculiar revisionist theories and to bar courts from calling expert witnesses in the future on the grounds that they are conflicted by previous law suits. Hence, in the case of the German massacre at Jedwabne in July 1941, attended by c. 156 German military personnel, where the crime scene is littered with spent ammunition from German weapons, the now commonly accepted story is that local Poles armed with clubs did it — not the Einsatzkommando commanded by Hermann Schaper. Schaper was convicted on sample counts of massacres immediately before and after, in the same area. But why should academia bother with facts anyway!