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**Previously Recorded by Phyllis Schlafly**
What do these people have in common: Walter Duranty, Herbert Matthews, Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Alex Haley, Rigoberta Menchu, and Michael Bellesiles? They are all celebrities who had a tremendous influence on American culture and on what is taught in U.S.
universities, but they were frauds. Some pretended to be scientists, some academic researchers, some investigative journalists, but their books were filled with lies, often masquerading as scientific discoveries. Nevertheless, they all had a major influence on the course of events in the United States.
Walter Duranty was the New York Times reporter who reported falsely to cover up Stalin’s massive murders in Russia. Herbert Matthews, another New York Times reporter, helped Castro to power in Cuba by denying he was a Communist. Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has been exposed as full of falsehoods. Influential books by anthropologist Margaret Mead and others have been proven to
be fabrications.
Alfred Kinsey’s data presented in his famous book about male sexuality was based on data collected from the gay underworld of Chicago and college students, and then skewed to promote his notion that homosexuality is more common than it actually is. Kinsey’s research included the sexual abuse of hundreds of children. Yet in spite of various exposes, the liberal elite continue to paint Kinsey’s work as scientific, and Hollywood recently made a favorable movie about him.
These cases of academic dishonesty are described in fascinating detail by Jack Cashill in his new book called Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture. The stories share a common theme — the willingness of the liberal intellectuals to condone mass deception in order to promote their agenda. This book is a fascinating expose of how these favorites of the liberal establishment used falsehoods to propagate the liberal line and influence our culture.
