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The hogwash school of polemics.(Washout: On the Academic Response to the Fabrication of Aboriginal History)(book)(author's response to reviews)

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| July 01, 2005 | Dawson, John | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE FRONT COVER of the Australian Book Review of May 2005 announced the journal's verdict on my book, Washout: On the Academic Response to the Fabrication of Aboriginal History, in one bold word: "HOGWASH". Below this verdict was a quote from the lead review, by ABR Chair and Whitewash editor Robert Manne:

 
   Because he is so heroically unperceptive, one is 
   obliged to assume that Dawson is not pretending 
   when he fails, time and again, to identify clear-sightedly 
   the core of the criticisms levelled at 
   Windschuttle by Whitewash authors and the lethal 
   damage they have done to his book.

Robert Manne's two-page review did not answer any of ...

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