Anyone wanna argue that this invetigation would have occurred anyway regardless of whether Churchill had written that fateful article? I didnt think so.

and he'll fade into obscurity again after this dies down.

He confused the issue of genocide and smallpox by exaggerating numbers. That was unnecessary and stupid because the truth was bad enough. Now racists and those who wish to revise American history cite churchill as being the one who invented the "myth" of genocide against the Natives of this country.

Check out Dershowitz + plagiarism for a discussion with a non-lightweight Leftie that none of the pissants at Fox would have the cajones to publicly take on.

Churchill argues that the U.S. Army deliberately distributed smallpox-infected blankets to the Mandan Indians in 1837 to spark a smallpox pandemic, and that hundreds of thousands of Indians died of smallpox as a consequence. Other scholars who have studied this episode agree that smallpox killed many Indians in this time frame, but deny that there is any evidence to support Churchill's allegations of deliberate genocide by means of smallpox blankets. They also charge Churchill with exaggerating the death toll and with falsifying the sources he cites in support of his claims. In November 2004, Guenter Lewy, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, published an essay charging Churchill with misrepresenting his sources. Lewy says Churchill's assertion that the U.S. Army intentionally spread smallpox among American Indians by distributing infected blankets in 1837 is false. "He just makes things up," said Lewy. Lewy calls Churchill's claim of 100,000 deaths from the incident "obviously absurd".[3][4] .... Three of the authors that Churchill cites in support of his smallpox thesis, Evan Conell, RG Robertson and Russell Thornton, have rejected Churchill's interpretation of their work. Thornton characterized Churchill's smallpox thesis as "fabrication." [19] Churchill continues to maintain that his description of events at Fort Clark is correct, and that he has obtained new supporting data.[20] The May 2006 report by the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado corroborated Churchill's critics. The committee concluded that for over a period of 10 years, Churchill consistently falsified his sources and fabricated claims regarding the Fort Clark epidemic. The committee criticized Churchill for failing to recognize and correct his errors, and for his insistence that he intends to republish his indictment of genocide in the future without substantive changes. The committee also criticized Churchill for answering his critics with ad hominem attacks instead of reason and evidence. Additionally, the committee found Churchill guilty of serious research misconduct in his claims that John Smith initiated a smallpox epidemic against Wampanoag Indians in the 17th century. The committee determined that Churchill had fabricated this event, and falsified his sources.