Future historians will include the no-temple argument of the 1990s as a remarkable case study in their surveys of academic fraud and politicized scholarship.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author predicts that a specific historical argument will be viewed as academic fraud by future scholars.
- In plain terms
- Future scholars will see this past argument as fake or biased.
- What can you take from it?
- Biased scholarship risks being exposed over time.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is this argument biased?
- How will history judge it?
Another view
Predictions about future academic consensus are speculative.
More from Koenraad Elst
In the West, secularism implies pinpricking religious fraud and arrogance, but in India, secularists are the most eloquent defenders of myth and theocracy.
Permalink to quote #9 The neologism adivasi constitutes one of the most successful disinformation campaigns in modern history.
Permalink to quote #8 As so often in Indo-Pakistani and Hindu-Muslim comparisons, the argument is reminiscent of the inequality between the contenders in the Cold War: you could dem…
Permalink to quote #7
Related quotes
Abraham ibn Ezra, that restless, versatile Spaniard who wrote on almost every subject which could interest the medieval mind
Cecil RothCecil Roth quote #2 David Lindholm & Peter Svard, Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword, Paladin Press (2003), ISBN 1-58160-410-6
Johannes LichtenauerJohannes Lichtenauer quote #3 Indeed, over the years I have had many a good laugh at the pompous moralism and blatant dishonesty of India's so-called secularists. Their specialty is to just…
Koenraad ElstKoenraad Elst quote #4