Lies, Damned lies & Niall Ferguson's Statistics

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

..can we ever take this bloke seriously again as a professional historian? ... he is just blowing the neocon trumpet seems to me ... i object to him and his intellectiual sleight of mind being given air time in the uk where our public intellectuals are too lazy to take him on with his imperial theories and neocon hogwash ...

teamsaint this link works for me and thankls pianorak

[teamsaint]

..can we ever take this bloke seriously again as a professional historian? ... he is just blowing the neocon trumpet seems to me ... i object to him and his intellectiual sleight of mind being given air time in the uk where our public intellectuals are too lazy to take him on with his imperial theories and neocon hogwash ...

couldn't get the link to open...anyone else having same problem?

[Pianorak]

No problem - perhaps try this one?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/a-full-fact-check-of-niall-fergusons-very-bad-argument-against-obama/261306/

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

further

[amateur51]

This is the man who gave the Reith lectures this year.

Well worth a listen, bearing in mind these comments in the links.

[Serial_Apologist]

This is the man who gave the Reith lectures this year.

Well worth a listen, bearing in mind these comments in the links.

Have to say, I got about two-thirds of the way through the first one and switched off in utter disappointment, as I said here at the time, at the usual establishment platitudes being regurgitated by a Reith Lecturer, and didn't bother with the remainder.

[aeolium]

Have to say, I got about two-thirds of the way through the first one and switched off in utter disappointment, as I said here at the time, at the usual establishment platitudes being regurgitated by a Reith Lecturer, and didn't bother with the remainder.

That was also my response, S_A - wretched stuff. He seems to be more propagandist or demagogue than historian.