Word: pseudo-scholarship
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Both parties to this debate make grave errors in their ideological intransigence. The anti-Robertson left makes a faulty jump from Robertson's pseudo-scholarship, which is genuinely dangerous, to what they falsely take to be the peril of the entire Christian Right. They threaten to compromise the validity of their legitimate critique of Robertson's book by smuggling into that critique a liberal political agenda that smacks of political partisanship, not a general concern for confronting the evil of anti-Semitism...
...Times last July, Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, called the book the "bible" of a new Black anti-Semitism. Gates wrote that the book is "one of the most sophisticated instances of hate literature yet compiled" and an example off "demagoguery and pseudo-scholarship". The Secret Relationship has also been criticized by Jewish groups...
There is a true scholarship, but there is also a pseudo-scholarship. There is the scholarship that is an essential part of the cultivated man who has made himself the intellectual master of some subject of broad, human interest. There is the other kind of scholarship that satisfies itself with the minutiae of scientific research in literature or history, that dissects some unimportant subdivision of a subject, and that demands of its students anything but a human interest in it, in the field of true scholarship, publication is a gift to the civilization of the time. In the other field...
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