Notorious CU prof busted for academic fraud

Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who blamed the 9/11 victims for their own murders, has a lot of problems, not the least of which are his false claims to American Indian heritage. And now, we learn about another facet of this scumbag: he fabricates facts in academic papers:

Churchill’s tale of genocide by means of biological warfare is shocking. It is also entirely fraudulent. The only truth in Churchill’s version of the pandemic is the fact that a smallpox outbreak did occur in 1837, and that it was probably carried into the region on board the steamboat St. Peter. Every other detail of Churchill’s story must have come from his imagination, because his own sources contradict him on nearly every point. None of the sources that Churchill cites make any mention of “a military infirmary…quarantined for smallpox.” None of the sources Churchill cites make any mention of U.S. Army soldiers even being in the area of the pandemic, much less being involved with it in any way. Churchill’s own sources make it clear that Fort Clark was not an Army garrison. It was a remote trading outpost that was privately owned and built by the American Fur Company, and manned by a handful of white traders. It was not an Army fort, nor did it contain soldiers. Not being an Army fort, it did not contain a “post surgeon” who told Indians to “scatter” and spread the disease. Churchill’s own sources make all of this abundantly clear.

Oh, one more thing. In a biography preface, Churchill claims his dead wife (a real Indian) suffered from severe mental illness, and mangled the history of her life. He didn't interview family members for background information before releasing the book. What a guy.