From "Shilling for Hitler," a review of Deborah E. Lipstadt's book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, by Charles Taylor of Salon.com, at Powell's Books' "Review-a-Day" page:
"What seems to bother Irving's defenders is the very notion of professional and intellectual accountability. Running into Lipstadt after the trial, [historian] Watt said to her, 'None of us could have withstood that kind of scrutiny.' In a column for the Evening Standard, he said, 'Show me one historian who has not broken out into a cold sweat at the thought of undergoing similar treatment.' What Lipstadt was perhaps too polite to say to Watt was that any historian who wishes to be worthy of the title had damn well better be able to withstand that kind of scrutiny."
