Eugene Volokh delves into the details regarding Ward Churchill’s false assertions, misrepresentation of sources, and plagiarism–“part of a pattern and consistent research stratagem to cloak extreme, unsupportable, propaganda-like claims of fact that support Professor Churchill’s legal and political claims with the aura of authentic scholarly research by referencing apparently (but not actually) supportive independent third-party sources.”
He concludes that the University of Colorado “need not keep a dishonest scholar on board, even if the complaints about the scholar were motivated partly by the complainers’ hostility to the scholar’s viewpoints.”