Article: Local newspapers defend academic frauds

What I find most interesting about articles such as the one in the Seattle Times is how their reporters leap to defend academic frauds like David Barash. Here is a man who is a trained biologist with no academic credentials to teach "Peace Studies" let alone to write a text book about Peace Studies. In the introduction to the book he and his co-author concede that they are lifelong ideologues (anti-American, pro-Communist and now sympathetic to Islamo-terrorists) and that their book is a propaganda tract. Yet this is offered in courses at otherwise respectable universities which are funded by taxpayers and students who are told that they are getting expert knowledge for their money. Professors like Barash make $100-$150,000 a year for 9 hours a week in the classroom; they get four months paid vacation and a lifetime job in the process -- all on the presumption that they are experts in a field of knowledge teaching their expertise. This is a corruption scandal bigger than Enron, But of course, the leftwing press can't be expected to care.

--David Horowitz