Talk:John William Heslop-Harrison

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More information on him There is lot more information about his life found in "A rum affair", I am not sure of the rules of Wikipedia though so maybe someone could add them or find other sources.

New evidence?

The article claims that new evidence of H-H's fraud emerged in 2008. Of the 3 sources quoted for this, one is from 1999 and based solely on Sabbagh's 'Rum Affair' book, and the other 2 are nearly identical and arguably don't contain anything substantially new. They both report (based on further information from Sabbagh) that the Natural History Museum holds a dossier on H-H in which various botanists expressed doubts about his findings, on much the same grounds as those described in the 1999 book. It's additional evidence that H-H was regarded with suspicion, but not as decisive as the wording of the article suggests. 109.148.240.134 (talk) 17:59, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sabbagh's article is in turn based upon Raven's extensive report. I think it is fair to remove "alleged" from this article as it is proven and accepted by many sources that the fraud was real. I'm editing to that effect.Emmentalist (talk) 16:16, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]