[Other] Course in Cologne focusing on VMS

[hermesj]

By the way, isn't it weird to spend so much time and effort explaining Cheshire's nonsense in a class like this? It's like inserting a chapter on Flat Earth in a course on astrophysics.

I actually planned the course without Cheshire (I got his outpourings via various mailing lists). But then, surprisingly enough and during the semester, the publication in Romance Studies popped up together with the whole media circus. The students decided on their own to study his paper. For them (and of course for myself) it was a good lesson in scientific and publication theory, and of course in recognizing nonsense...