Eric Stewart, a professor at Florida State University, has been fired for falsifying data in research papers purporting to show that American society is beset with racism. The New York Post has more.
The academic was fired after almost 20 years of his data — including figures used in an explosive study, which claimed the legacy of lynchings made whites perceive blacks as criminals, and that the problem was worse among conservatives — were found to be in question.
College authorities said he was being fired for “incompetence” and “false results”.
Among the studies he has had to retract were claims that whites wanted longer sentences for blacks and Latinos.
To date, six of Stewart’s articles published in major academic journals like Criminology and Law and Society Review between 2003 and 2019 have been fully retracted after allegations the professor’s data was fake or so badly flawed it should not have been published.
The professor’s termination came four years after his former graduate student Justin Pickett blew the whistle on his research.
Pickett said they had worked together in 2011 researching whether the public was demanding longer sentences for black and Hispanic criminals as those minority populations grew, with the paper claiming they did. But Stewart had fiddled the sample size to deliver that result when the real research did not, Pickett said.
When the investigation into Stewart began in 2020, he claimed he was the victim and that Pickett “essentially lynched me and my academic character”.
After 16 years as a professor of criminology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Provost James Clark formally notified Stewart he was being terminated in a July 13th letter.
“I do not see how you can teach our students to be ethical researchers or how the results of future research projects conducted by you could be deemed as trustworthy,” Clark wrote to Stewart, who has been absent from his role since March.
Clark said as well as the six officially retracted studies, other work by Stewart was “in doubt”.
The retracted studies looked into contentious social issues, like whether the public perceives black and Latino people as threats and the role of racial discrimination in America’s criminal justice system.
One 2019 study, which has been retracted, suggested historical lynchings make white people today perceive black people as threats.
Stewart floated the idea “that this effect will be greater among whites… where socioeconomic disadvantage and political conservatism are greater”.
Another retracted 2018 study suggested that white Americans view black and Latino people as “criminal threats”, and suggested that perceived threat could lead to “state-sponsored social control”.
And in a third, Stewart claimed Americans wanted tougher sentences for Latinos because their community was increasing in numbers and becoming more economically successful. …
But the disgraced professor was able to rise to prominence as an influencer in his field despite his studies from as early as 2003 now being retracted.
Stewart was a widely-cited scholar, with north of 8,500 citations by other researchers, according to Google Scholar — a measure of his clout as an academic.
He was Vice President and Fellow at the American Society of Criminology, who honoured him as one of four highly distinguished criminologists in 2017.
He was also a W.E.B. DuBois fellow at the National Institute of Justice.
The professor received north of $3.5 million in grant support from major organisations and taxpayer-funded entities, according to his resume.
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NOT A WAVE!!! A cesspit of crap PCR test results!
Yes, a lot of vulnerable people finished off by the “vaccines” weren’t there?
Just look at the huge jump in reported deaths (in England and Wales) – 3 weeks after the first full week of “vaccination”(18 December).
That was my first thought.
Yes – it slaps you in the face.
Just as worryingly, and I reference UK Column (10th May, and possibly today’s upcoming broadcast) is the reported rise in ambulance queues outside of hospitals. It is at least possible, or even likely, that this could be in part due to the number of vaxx ADRs being reported (or should that be under-reported?).
The current government MHRA figures are difficult to interpret at source, but the UKC’s new resource makes it possible to view and most importantly interrogate the MHRA Yellow Card figures (remembering that due to under reporting these are likely to show only 10% or less of actual ADRs being experienced in the UK by the government’s own admission).
https://yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-reports
Oh but look now
THE VACCINE HAS ABOLISHED DEATH!
that must be it
Similar to June last year when the ONS were reporting fewer deaths than the 5 year average, first in London but soon spreading to the rest of the country.
Significantly not reported in the MSM who preferred to divert our attention with Cummingsgate and even Madie McCann.
Oh dear. William – stop confusing ‘cases’ with real meaningful data.
It really does fog any argument.
And that short term average really is a bummer as a baseline, given what we know. It minimises the unremarkable.
“This suggests Sweden’s “spring wave” was largely a casedemic, with any real Covid killing those who were already approaching the end of their life.”
From the article it doesn’t seem to do that.
I noted that during the winter and Spring we didn’t seem to have the usual ‘norovirus’ issues but suddenly the symptoms of coronavirus included vomiting and diarrhoea.
They are playing us like fiddles, it’s time the strings were snapped.
The list just kept growing…. you name it, it was another symptom. What an amazing virus, to manifest itself in such a variety of ways! And of course vomiting and diarrhoea are symptoms! How could you possibly doubt it? It will have been proven by those amazingly accurate PCR tests
I think Will is correct that the second winter peak in Sweden could have been a scandemic. There was no increase of excess mortality and ongoing mass testing in the increased hysteria in Sweden since November last year (when hysteria finally affected Sweden with increased NPI measures without any effects).
But were there not many severe cases in ICU C-19 in Sweden during the second winter peak? Yes, but where they actual C-19 cases?
Difficult question .PCR test in Sweden should now be coupled with symptoms in order to be indicative of C-19 infection. But what happens if the current bunch of patients in ICU in Sweden have PCR test positive and symptoms but caused by another respiratory virus,as PCR reflects something 3 months earlier?
There could be a massive amount of people infected over the winter carrying fragments of virus several months and now having another virus infection falsely attributed to C-19.It would be interesting to know the Ct values of all hospitalized patients, in fact, why are these data not available?
There could be a lot of European countries with a second peak in the winter seasonal wave which also did not have excess mortality where this could be another virus.
And then we have the strangest country in the world, Hungary with the highest C-19 mortality in the world but not any excess mortality. There is a lot of puzzling things going on if we don’t have Ct values of hospitalized/ICU/deaths before we can be sure of the current data.
On the same theme: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2021/03/20/covid19-hidden-figures-and-ooda/
Stop using the word “wave” in this context would be a start
I can confirm exactly the same situation in France. A lot of noise about high numbers of ‘cases’, hospitalisations, ICU numbers etc etc. Graphs and numbers reported to Worldometer etc that appear to show a continuing threat all through the winter and spring.
Yet a quick glance at all couse deaths 2021 shows the numbers each month and cumulative exactly the same as 2019. Even to monthly and seasonal variations.
Its nbeen a casedemic in France since the start of 2021. Many tests in the 20-40 year group to keep numbers up I presume.