Comments on: Quadrant Demidenkoed. That is all

By: skepticlawyer » Katherine Wilson is not Muttiah Muralitharan

skepticlawyer » Katherine Wilson is not Muttiah Muralitharan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:44:03 +0000

[...] various places around Ozblogistan (enumerated in considerable detail in my earlier post on the topic), people have been calling Katherine Wilson a fraud. Or they’ve been calling Ern Malley a [...]

By: Legal Eagle

Legal Eagle — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:42:06 +0000

DEM, that’s hilarious. And I like the way everyone took it in good humour too.

By: DeusExMacintosh

DeusExMacintosh — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:45:05 +0000

Seems hoaxing isn’t a practice unique to Australia … however in the UK it’s not taken quite as seriously.

Peer reveals ‘cello scrotum’ hoax

By: Pro Information Center » Blog Archive » Sunday Snippets - a blogging meander

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:56:08 +0000

[...] and mainstream media in outing Ms Wilson. Then go to this piece by scepticlawyer (Helen Dale) Quadrant Demidenkoed. That is all. This provides a picture of the evolving events, including links through to some of the content [...]

By: Ken N

Ken N — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:59:54 +0000

Yes, thanks for the link to the R J Stove piece, MCB.
Stove mentioned in an entry on John Quiggin’s blog that he had been an applicant for the job of editing Quadrant. It was then that he discovered that the job was unpaid.
It is a bit misleading to describe Quadrant as “taxpayer funded”. I believe that it receives a small grant for publishing fiction and poetry. I doubt that it would fold if it lost this grant.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:59:44 +0000

Thanks for that, MCB. Sorry about the delay — you got trapped by the spammer.

By: Mild Colonial Boy

Mild Colonial Boy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:43:09 +0000

I know that this is a bit late but here is another point of view on the subject by R.J. Stove at the American emagazine Takimag:

http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_hoax_down_under/

By: Adrien

Adrien — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:50:56 +0000

But you’re a Camille Paglia fan, so you’re much less likely to have seen this side of her.

Or maybe that’s the attraction.

By: Posey

Posey — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:03:05 +0000

Hildegard of Bingen! Jinmaro, Kerryn and weathergirl sound like a veritable cacophony of yawps. Bit ruled by their passions, peut-etre?

Not like us eh, sweeties?

By: John Greenfield

John Greenfield — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:50:09 +0000

Ah, so ‘jinmaro’ is really Kerryn Goldsworthy!