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One 2019 study, which has been retracted, suggested historical lynchings make white people today perceive black people as threats.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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Mentally disturbed people are prone to suicide.
Children know full well how to try to manipulate parents.
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https://thenewconservative.co.uk/tony-blair-a-long-overdue-exorcism/
Frank Haviland sticking the knife in to the most evil man ever to hold a British passport, the psychopath Tony Bliar.
“Blair’s greatest crime however, was almost certainly the deliberate exposure of Britain to the horrors of mass immigration, and the embrace of multiculturalism which was neither explained to nor requested by the British people. Under New Labour, immigration quintupled to the tune of 3.6 million net – an outrage topped only by the lies used to justify it. First it was migrants were required to do the jobs Brits refused to do. When it was pointed out that Brits actually would do them, Blair told them to get a better education instead!”
Frank reaches this conclusion which has clearly been worded with some restraint…
“It’s time someone performed the necessary exorcism and purged us once and for all of New Labour’s poltergeist.”
More Bliar bashing please.
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https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1813822998874337466
This is a two minute video of a farmer who has been approached by some government wonk and has been offered money NOT to grow food.
When you read the testimonies of detransitioners it’s heartbreaking because you’re seeing the extent of the permanent harms that have been done to them, enabled by a combination of parents and the state. They often get stuck somewhere in between genders and can never really be completely normal again, especially if meds have been started in early childhood before they started puberty, and this normal physiological process was interrupted. Here’s the testimony of an 18yr old guy who thought he wanted to be a girl as a kid. What kind of parent would do this to their own child though? Don’t these parents feel shame and guilt for the rest of their lives? Or do they honestly think their child would have committed suicide had they not proceeded with this entire damaging, health-destroying process?
https://x.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1812589643101356040
It’s pretty clear to me that the narrative is crumbling for the Transtifa child-grooming mafia, and we’re going to see more ‘buyers remorse’ via an increase in detransitioners, much like how people stopped getting endless death jabs. Or maybe it’d be more appropriate to say that there’ll be a decrease in parents screwing up their kids’ health and futures as the scales fall from their eyes, irrespective of government narrative.
https://x.com/SandraMargin/status/1814687176971477006
If there’s one thing that makes me see red it’s this. I’ll tell you what will increase child suicides: making children believe sex is interchangeable. Making children believe that not being heterosexual is cool. Making children believe their parents are their enemies. Making girls think all men are evil rapists. Mutilating children – cutting them up and sowing on different bits. The list of child cruelty is bloody endless, all complete BS, and all driven by far-left evil.
We’re at the calm before the storm. We have a generation of children who have yet to understand they’ve been told a lie by the nice, caring adults of the nice, caring left. Child suicide? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
I’ll add that telling children that large parts of the Earth are going to become uninhabitable and billions of people will die because of climate change isn’t going to be great for their mental health.
Anyone who is disappointed that there are not more ‘gender-questioning young people’ committing suicide is obviously not to be trusted. It’s very good news that the puberty blocker ban is not increasing child suicides, but it’s somehow not good news for Jolyon Maughan and the Good Law Project campaigners.
That man needs to be treated like the fox he encountered.