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Thomas Sowell |
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this page is still UNFINISHED. Making pages like this has little reward, and I often "burn out". |
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If anyone reading this knows of any lie about Sowell that has been used to unfairly defame him, please contact me. I wish to also expose lies that unfairly damage his reputation. |
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Thomas Sowell is one of the most dishonest writers I've ever read. It is very easy for me to find lies in his books and syndicated editorials. I've now spent around five hours total checking source information for around 15 different claims I found in his published writings. These were the results:
3 times: I was unable to locate the source information I needed
12 times I found all the source information I needed. Of these 12 times:
2 times: I found Sowell had accurately represented the source.
5 times: I found that Sowell had used wording that had significantly misrepresented the truth.
5 times: I found that Sowell had definitely lied. I mean "clear cut, blatantly obvious" intential falsehoods.
It seems that all I have to do to find a another lie is devote around ten minutes to reading any of his published writings I haven't seen before, that criticizes environmentalists, democrats, feminists, or any other of his usual targets. I simply look for any claim he puts into the mouth of one of the targeted persons or groups, and investigate. About 66% of the time I discover a very significant difference between Sowell's claim about the target, and information in the source material. |
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Reasoning errors: |
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Explictly-worded lies: |
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A nonsensical accusation of "shifting the burden of proof" (from p 77 of The Vision of the Annointed) |
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An intentional (surely) falsehood about a prediction by the Club of Rome,
on p. 77 of The Vision of the Annointed1 |
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A nonsensical claim about capital punishment's deterent effect |
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A apparently-fabricated quote put in mouth of Ralph Nader
on p 90 of The Vision of the Annointed |
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Nonsensical claim in Sowell's book The Quest for Cosmic Justice about John Rawls' famous theory of justice that is described in Rawls' book, A Theory of Justice. |
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A lie about feminists supposedly claiming 4 million American women are murdered every year. |
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A nonsensical claim about how many marriages end in divorce, from page 59 of The Vision of the Annointed. |
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Implicitly-worded lies: |
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A false claim that record federal deficits didn't happen during the Reagan administration, on page 82 of The Vision of the Annointed. |
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A false claim in one of his editorials: that Bill Clinton said in a speech that black churches burned down in Arkansas during his childhood. |
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A false claim about a San Franciso politician's threat to investigate hotel's charges |
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A false claim about a law passed by California's Legislature requiring that landlord's give 60 days notice to tenants before they can be evicted. |
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1. Sowell, Thomas. The Vision of the Annointed: self-congratulation as a basis for social policy. Basic Books. copyright 1995. |
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