[Vision2020] Crawford vs. Wilson

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

I hesitated a bit before I bought Christina Crawford's book today, but I 
checked to see if it had a footnotes, bibliography, and an index, and it 
did.  Now I will see how see does.  But whatever her failings are, I'm sure 
she has not done the following:

1.  She has not started a school and set up her own accrediting agency to 
legitimize it.

2.  She would always maintain that a college degree should be required of 
any teacher.

3.  Even though she is trying her hand at medieval history, she would never 
pass herself off as an historian at a fake history conference.  She would 
not expect to be invited to a real history conference either.

4.  Her publisher would have more sense than to ask her to contribute to a 
monograph series that it has set up for the best historical scholarship.

5. She, and thousands of other amateur writers, could have written a far 
more honest book on Southern slavery than Wilson and Wilkins have.

6.  If she gets criticism about her book on the Inquisition, I'm confident 
that she will not avoid the points made by calling her critics names.  She 
may not succeed in defending herself but at least she will have preserved 
her integrity.

7.  She would not shamelessly set up her own publishing company in order to 
get her books printed.

I could go on, but my point should be an obvious one.  Wilson and his 
cohorts have set up a school and a college that claims academic 
credibility, but they have proved themselves to be intellectual frauds.

Nick Gier