[Vision2020] Melynda Huskey Charges John Harrell Falsely With Plagrism

Melynda Huskey melyndah@wsu.edu
Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:32:56 -0700


At 10:09 AM 7/1/2003 -0700, John Harrell wrote:

>Wait a second, are you saying the following quotes are not true?

Dear John,

Let's try again.  Neither of us has any idea whether those quotations (with 
the exception of Hitler as quoted by William Shirer) are accurate, since 
neither of us has seen the original sources of those quotations.  Unless 
you can tell me where Norman Thomas, Patricia Warren [sic--her name is 
actually Patricia Nell Warren], or Ross Finny, Socialist Ph.D., said the 
things attributed to them, I have no reason to believe that they 
did.  Certainly your thirdhand reproduction of the quotations does not 
attest to their authenticity.  Nor do the typos and grammatical errors so 
painstakingly reproduced from the original essay.

So in fact, I'm saying that we have no way of knowing if the quotations are 
real.  Whether or not they are true is an imponderable.

Is anybody still wondering if government schools serve a purpose?

Fighting under the banner of pedantry,

Melynda Huskey