{"id":1597,"date":"2009-04-05T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T02:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2009-04-05T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T02:20:13","slug":"fish-ferociously-flubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Fish ferociously flubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the ground after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/fish.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/05\/ward-churchill-redux\/\">Stanley Fish&#8217;s latest piece<\/a>, wherein he argues that because some substantive academic arguments are heated, we should see through the University of Colorado faculty committee&#8217;s misreading of a typical scholarly debate as research misconduct. One can make a number of plausible arguments about the university&#8217;s response to the committee report (e.g., that it ignored the majority&#8217;s view that the appropriate punishment was a demotion and suspension, not firing), but to claim that the committee erred while passing off the sleight-of-mouth that he admitted being &#8220;not competent to judge Churchill&#8217;s writings&#8221; is just astounding. If a peer committee with more expertise in the area than Fish is not competent to judge research misconduct in such a case, who should be allowed to pass judgment?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are other fallacies in the piece: Fish&#8217;s defense of Churchill doesn&#8217;t match the central argument the jury was exposed to (political bias and pressure motivating administrators), and I still don&#8217;t understand why it should matter to the University of Colorado that Doris Kearns Goodwin is still making moolah after admitting plagiarism. Dick Cheney is still earning a pension after encouraging torture. Would that excuse my waterboarding a neighbor? Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>In protest of this illogic, I am going to exile myself from Florida for a week to Minnesota. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the ground after reading Stanley Fish&#8217;s latest piece, wherein he argues that because some substantive academic arguments are heated, we should see through the University of Colorado faculty committee&#8217;s misreading of a typical scholarly debate as research misconduct. One can make a number of plausible arguments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-higher-education","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-pL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}