DCP Responds to Getting "Fired" from the Review

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If someone is looking for an informant leak, it looks like it can be detected here:

To: <[M. Gerald Bradford] xxx@xxx.xxx> [18 other recipients, redacted for privacy]

Bold emphasis mine.

Mr. Bradford's email was to Dan, and Dan alone. Dan's response and the corresponding email were sent to 18 unknown recipients. Obviously, Scratch's "informant" is on that list. It looks like Dan unwittingly gave Scratch's informant the fodder.
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liz3564 wrote:Obviously, Scratch's "informant" is on that list. It looks like Dan unwittingly gave Scratch's informant the fodder.


I rather doubt it. I think Scratch's informant is more likely a friend or relation of someone on that list.

Just my two cents.
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liz3564 wrote:If someone is looking for an informant leak, it looks like it can be detected here:

To: <[M. Gerald Bradford] xxx@xxx.xxx> [18 other recipients, redacted for privacy]

Bold emphasis mine.

Mr. Bradford's email was to Dan, and Dan alone. Dan's response and the corresponding email were sent to 18 unknown recipients. Obviously, Scratch's "informant" is on that list. It looks like Dan unwittingly gave Scratch's informant the fodder.


DCP's an attention-whore. Seems it finally bit him on the ass.

H>
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LDSToronto wrote:DCP's an attention-whore. Seems it finally bit him on the ass.

H>


In my view that email may have been written with the understanding that it would probably be leaked to the online world. Look at the great care that was taken to protect the identities of wealthy donors whom both Bradford and Peterson obviously know.
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Kishkumen wrote:
LDSToronto wrote:DCP's an attention-whore. Seems it finally bit him on the ass.

H>


In my view that email may have been written with the understanding that it would probably be leaked to the online world. Look at the great care that was taken to protect the identities of wealthy donors whom both Bradford and Peterson obviously know.


So, in a way, we are just being helpful!

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LDSToronto wrote:So, in a way, we are just being helpful!

H.


Hmmm... I suppose it is possible.

You do see a righteously indignant Dr. Peterson going out with both barrels blazing.

He remains convinced that he was doing the right thing.
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Wow. This is quite a development. I had been under the impression that Scratch's secret informant was a closet apostate now I suspect the "leaks" were a big powerplay to wrest control away from the Old Guard of apologists at the Maxwell Institute.

I think they're in for a long search to try to replace Dan. I can't see a academic like Bushman in the role, the Gen X generation of LDS scholars are probably way too liberal for the donor base. I predict it will be ...... Rod Meldrum or John Dehlin. ;-)

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Phaedrus Ut wrote:Wow. This is quite a development. I had been under the impression that Scratch's secret informant was a closet apostate now I suspect the "leaks" were a big powerplay to wrest control away from the Old Guard of apologists at the Maxwell Institute.

I think they're in for a long search to try to replace Dan. I can't see a academic like Bushman in the role, the Gen X generation of LDS scholars are probably way too liberal for the donor base. I predict it will be ...... Rod Meldrum or John Dehlin. ;-)

Phaedrus


or ...Don Bradley? ;)
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gramps wrote:or ...Don Bradley? ;)


While that would be fabulous, he does not yet possess a graduate degree. I would imagine the job will go to a PhD with some publication experience under his belt. It will most likely be someone already at BYU.
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It will be replaced by the journal at Claremont. The hiatus will morph into something not. But I'm not an insider and don't know.
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