re: #272 researchok

What are the wrong facts on his article about Allende and Chile?

Simply asserting facts are wrong does not make that true.

You are quite right, simply asserting facts says nothing. Horowitz may be correct about Allende and Chile, but based on his scholarship in other areas, I would not assume his work was any less shoddy so I would be careful to look for other sources of information. He obviously has an axe to grind, and grind it he does. That makes all of his work suspect. If you have other sources of information, sources that don’t just link back to Horowitz but are truly independent, that corroborate his work, then and only then would I bother to use him as a source, and only for that one subject.

Unfair as it may seem, having a reputation as a poor scholar takes a lot of work to overcome, if it ever does, while having a reputation of good scholarship takes a lot of errors to screw up.