SV: Rajaram's "horse seal"

[Arun Gupta]

Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse at ONLINE.NO> wrote:

[snip]
>Rajaram is a different cup of tea. Having read a couple of his books, I
>could easily show how he manipulates research data in a flourish of
>rhetorical language to defame and vilify Western scholars while promoting
>views and interpretations that are, to be polite, intellectually weak. If
>his manipulation of the "horse" seal wouldn't have drummed him out of
>Academia, his books certainly would.
[snip]

It is a good hope [ drummed out of Academia ] but unlikely to happen.
History is used to argue both for and against India's nationhood; and that
argument can even be quite violent, as you are aware if you follow the news.
So, history is politicized, and that pollutes Academia.

Fraud of a similar kind ( false and misleading conclusions from a
statistical model) and far greater consequence has been perpetrated by the
psychometrians ("The Bell Curve") and none of them has been drummed out of
[US] academia to my knowledge.  In fact, they occupy tenured positions in
many major US universities.

-arun gupta