Dershowitz vs. Cockburn

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/id144.htm

Every time he tries to leap to firmer ground, defending the rotten
standards of scholarship in his rotten book, Dershowitz sinks in
deeper. Start with his defiant declaration from the dock that he did
not commit plagiarism because "every word written by others appears
with quotation marks, is cited to their original or secondary sources
and is quoted accurately." This skates (rather clumsily, I have to
say) round the question of what source Dershowitz actually did use
for his citation and whether or not he acknowledged it. Often he used
Peters and pretended he didn't, which would get him into very hot
water at Harvard if he were a student and not the Felix Frankfurter
Professor.

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I don't agree, but I still laugh.

And Jim Sagle's responses are nuthin' but shit...

It's hard to know who to choose.

Are you saying that a professor of law at Harvard is a half-wit ? Or are you saying that Finkelstein and Cockburn are half-wits ? Are there really three half-wits ?

It's sad that Dershowitz blundered so badly. Perhaps if he took time out from creating the new jurisprudence of torture, he could do some real research and create a book of some value. Perhaps he forgot that the audience for a book is not just 12 "half-wits" selected at random for a jury.

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