At 2006-02-22 06:39:32 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If anyone's interested in the details, the court transcripts are > available online at http://www.hdot.org/ieindex.html.
Not only court transcripts, but (in the "Evidence" section), scholarly critiques of his work. Particularly interesting is this: http://www.hdot.org/evidence/evans.asp In theory, I'll agree that historical opinion should not be discounted merely because it goes against whatever is popularly accepted as fact, but (hi Calvin) in this case, it's ridiculous to claim that Irving is the victim of such a kneejerk reaction. There are excellent reasons to believe that he's a vicious liar, that his research on the Holocaust is beyond merely sloppy, and that his ideas aren't worth wasting time on. So there's nothing wrong with "presenting a coherent antithesis". It's just that this one is bogus, and defending it makes one sound like a twit. (Note: I'm not expressing an opinion about the Austrian law, merely on Calvin's "But he *could* be right" digression.) -- ams
