Recently a thread was started which relied upon the work of discredited author Michael Bellesiles to make a point. 

For the sake of proper scholarship here is some information about the wonderful bit of work Bellesiles did...

From Reason Magazine "Bellesiles had flung his challenge at a political organization, but unfortunately for him it was the scholarly community that picked it up. The evidence he had presented for his groundbreaking theory was investigated first by experts from a range of disciplines and political viewpoints; then by a special symposium in a learned journal; and finally, as a result of the disturbing findings, by the professor's university and an outside panel of scholars that it appointed. The results are now in: Bellesiles' arguments are based on wholesale misuse of evidence and, in some cases, no evidence at all. The "invented tradition" is fact, the professor's version a folk tale."

The History News Network had a bit to say too... 

Of course a criticism of Bellesiles would not be complete without his resignation from Emory University 

 CFIF.org  "Shortly before last Christmas, Columbia University finally took back the Bancroft Prize, concluding, some time after the rest of the world, that Bellesiles had "violated basic norms of scholarship."  Now, Alfred A. Knopf, the book's publisher, has pulled the plug on publication."

The New York Times reports on the revocation of the Bancroft Prize 

Without going into the subject matter of the book, I find it an affront to any sort of meaningful exchange that so widely discredited a work as this one is being referenced as a serious work.