But the history of lie-detection machines suggests that it would be equally foolish to assume that a few scholarly critics can forestall the adoption of such a seductive new technology.
But now some of Mr. Zinn's strongest scholarly critics have rushed to his defense, following the revelation that former Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana had, while in office, sent e-mails to a state education official asking for assurance that Mr. Zinn's "truly execrable, antifactual piece of disinformation" was "not in use" in Indiana classrooms.
"L'Atalante," which plays for a week at Film Forum beginning Friday, is a fixture in surveys of the best films of the 20th century; but it's also a film that's been misrepresented by scholarly critics, who either deconstruct it to the point of sterility or build it up so much that first-time viewers walk away disappointed.
To Mr. Kutler's scholarly critics, though, the most serious failing is that excerpts from two separate conversations that took place on March 16 — one made during a face-to-face meeting in the morning, and a second over the telephone in the evening — were reversed in order and presented as part of one continuous meeting.
Writing about this trip at length in In the Ice World of the Himalayas, Fanny made efforts to include scientific information and experiments, touting her own modified barometer as superior, but scholarly critics were unimpressed and pointed out her lack of scientific knowledge.
His predecessor, Kwik Kian Gie, was criticized for his scholarly bent, which critics said translated into halting policies.
The ideological debate turned into a scholarly inquiry when critics pointed out several significant errors in fact and sources.
There have been a number of previous editions of the letters, including one assembled by the artist's sister-in-law, Jo, which appeared in 1914; the first scholarly edition by art critic Douglas Cooper in 1938; and the standard collection, gathered by the painter's nephew, Vincent Willem van Gogh, and published between 1952 and 1954.
Now, with the scholarly endorsement of the critic Marjorie Perloff – she was among the first to note an affinity between Goldsmith's appropriations and Benjamin's quotation hoard – he has composed a 1,008-page 1,008-pagew York, created almost entirely from othymnpeople's words.
In an essay, "Nancy Drew: A Moment in Feminist History," part of a scholarly compilation, "Rediscovering Nancy Drew," the critic Carolyn Heilbrun rightly points out that for all the mass admiration for Nancy Drew, few women remembered anything concrete about the books.
