INSTA-POWER, BABY! I don’t know if it was in response to the comments at the end of this post or — more likely — in response to comments from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s lawyers, but the AP has issued this clarification to yesterday’s Bellesiles story:

ATLANTA (AP) — An Oct. 26 Associated Press story about the resignation of Emory University professor Michael Bellesiles amid questions about his research for a book on the history of guns in America mentioned three other historians or academics recently caught up in controversy over their work.

The story misleadingly suggested that the three had been accused of academic fraud of a kind similar to that alleged against Bellesiles, who was found by an academic panel to be “guilty of unprofessional and misleading work” in his research. Bellesiles has denied the allegations.

In fact, the three others are not accused of fraudulent research, but of actions ranging from inadequate attribution of source material to plagiarism.

Whatever, I’m glad to see them make the point clear. (Thanks to reader Mike Daley for the headsup).

UPDATE: Fritz Schranck has criticisms of the original story and the correction. I like the Nixon comparison.