{"id":1987889,"date":"2023-08-01T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-university-professor-fired-over-erroneous-studies-finding-racial-bias-in-criminal-justice\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:26:29","slug":"florida-university-professor-fired-over-erroneous-studies-finding-racial-bias-in-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-university-professor-fired-over-erroneous-studies-finding-racial-bias-in-criminal-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida university professor fired for &#8216;flawed&#8217; studies on racial bias in criminal justice."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-university-professor-fired-over-erroneous-studies-finding-racial-bias-in-criminal-justice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987889&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida State University Fires Professor for \u200cResearch Misconduct<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      <strong>Eric\u200c Stewart\u2064 (Florida State \u2063University Facebook)<\/strong><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A shocking case of research misconduct has led to the termination of a professor \u200bat Florida State University. The university \u200cfired criminologist Eric Stewart after uncovering a series of studies that allegedly perpetuated racial discrimination within the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">criminal justice system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Final-Termination-Letter-7.13.23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">termination letter<\/a> posted \u200bonline by the nonprofit group Retraction Watch, Stewart was\u200d dismissed due to &#8220;extreme negligence in basic data\u200b management, resulting in \u2062an unprecedented number\u200b of articles retracted.&#8221; Florida State \u200bUniversity provost \u2064James\u2063 J.\u200c Clark expressed concern over the &#8220;numerous erroneous and \u200dfalse narratives&#8221; present \u200bin at least six of Stewart&#8217;s studies,\u2063 which have had a detrimental \u2064impact on the field of criminology \u2063at a national level. Clark even described the damage caused as approaching the catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>One particularly \u2062alarming case involved \u2063a study \u200cpublished in the academic journal <em>Criminology<\/em> in 2011. As reported\u200c by\u200b the <em>College Fix<\/em>, editors discovered that Stewart \u200chad manipulated \u200bdata to inaccurately demonstrate that as black \u200band Hispanic populations \u2062increased, \u2062the surrounding white populations desired more racially discriminatory sentencing. This\u200b study was subsequently \u200bretracted in 2019.\u200d In fact, a \u200dtotal of five other criminology studies \u2063related\u2064 to race and co-authored \u200cby Stewart have also been retracted, according to the <em>College \u200dFix<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This incident adds to a growing list\u2062 of\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-to-stop-them-from-silencing-you-conservatives-slam-facebooks-independent-oversight-board\/\" title=\"\u2018What\u2019s To Stop Them From Silencing You?\u2019 Conservatives Slam Facebook\u2019s \u2018Independent\u2019 Oversight Board\">left-wing academics<\/a> who have faced \u2062consequences for research misconduct. Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/stanford-president-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-university-professor-fired-over-erroneous-studies-finding-racial-bias-in-criminal-justice\/\" title=\"Florida university professor fired for 'flawed' studies on racial bias in criminal justice.\">law firm discovered manipulated data<\/a> in \u200cmultiple papers he co-authored. Additionally, \u200da Harvard professor\u200b who specializes\u200b in studying honesty was \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/harvard-professor-who-studies-honesty-for-a-living-accused-of-faking-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">credibly accused<\/a> of using fraudulent data in her research, as \u200creported by \u200bthe <em>Chronicle of\u200c Higher Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Pickett, a co-author of Stewart&#8217;s retracted papers and a professor \u2062at SUNY Albany, publicly accused Stewart \u200bof fraud, as reported by the <em>College Fix<\/em>.\u2063 Pickett suggested \u2064that fraud\u200b was the most likely explanation for the data irregularities and challenged Stewart to prove \u200cotherwise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State University terminated criminologist Eric Stewart&#8217;s employment due to allegations of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. The professor was fired for severe negligence in data management, leading to an unprecedented amount of retracted articles. Stewart received a termination letter outlining these reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1987890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}