{"id":1988008,"date":"2023-08-01T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-state-university-fires-professor-behind-retracted-racism-studies-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:51:16","slug":"florida-state-university-fires-professor-behind-retracted-racism-studies-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-state-university-fires-professor-behind-retracted-racism-studies-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State University fires professor responsible for retracted racism studies, according to reports."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-state-university-fires-professor-behind-retracted-racism-studies-report%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=1988008&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 \u200bState University Fires Professor Over\u2062 Academic \u200cFraud Allegations<\/h2>\n<p>Florida State University has recently made the decision to terminate the\u200d employment of Dr. Eric\u200d Stewart, a criminology professor, following the retraction of five of his studies on racism. This brings an end to a\u200c long-standing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-state-university-fires-professor-behind-retracted-racism-studies-report\/\" title=\"Florida State University fires professor responsible for retracted racism studies, according to reports.\">contentious conflict surrounding allegations<\/a> of \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-that-offered-1619-project-creator-a-professorship-has-history-of-fraud-in-black-studies\/\" title=\"College That Offered \u20181619 Project\u2019 Creator A Professorship Has History Of Fraud In Black Studies\">academic fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The termination letter,\u200d obtained\u2064 by \u2063Retraction Watch,\u2062 states that Stewart was fired on July \u206213th due to his behavior and &#8220;extreme\u2064 negligence and\u2064 incompetence&#8221; in basic \u200bdata management. \u2062These shortcomings have \u200cresulted in\u2062 an unprecedented number of retracted articles and others \u2062that \u2063are \u200dnow under scrutiny. \u200dJames Clark, the \u200cschool&#8217;s provost and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-former-ag-barr-initiated-spying-program-on-americans-back-in-1992\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Former AG Barr Initiated Spying Program on Americans Back in 1992\">executive vice president<\/a> for academic \u2062affairs, expressed\u2064 concern that these retractions have had \u200ca negative impact\u2063 on the discipline of criminology at\u2063 a\u2062 national level.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Decades of\u2063 research that were once \u200bthought to be at the forefront of the criminology discipline have been shown to contain numerous erroneous and false narratives,&#8221; \u200cClark wrote.\n  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The damage to the standing of\u200b the University and, in particular, the College of Criminology and \u2064Criminal Justice and its faculty approaches the \u200ccatastrophic \u2062and may be unalterable,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\n \u2062\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The repercussions of\u2064 Stewart&#8217;s research misconduct have extended beyond the university. The letter highlights \u2063how it has affected Florida\u2063 State&#8217;s \u200crecruitment efforts for both students and faculty.\u200b Additionally, other researchers at the university now worry about the potential challenges they may face in getting\u200d their \u2062own\u2064 papers published in top journals.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u200d emphasized that the decision to terminate\u200c Stewart&#8217;s employment was made after\u200b a\u200b thorough\u200d review of \u2062the \u2063evidence gathered during the school&#8217;s investigation. Stewart\u200c was also given the opportunity\u200b to defend himself before\u200d a peer panel.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Stewart abruptly left his \u2063position \u200dafter \u2063being accused\u2063 by his peers\u2063 of \u200dacademic fraud. The Florida Standard reported that Stewart, who is\u200d black,\u200b had been accused of manipulating data to exaggerate \u200bthe prevalence of racism within the <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>Stewart, an associate professor \u200dat FSU&#8217;s College \u200cof Criminology\u200d and Criminal Justice, \u200bhad been employed at the university for 16 years and was a \u200bFellow of the American Society \u200dof Criminology. The retraction of six of\u200b his studies, \u2062five of which focused on \u200crace, \u2063has tarnished the reputation\u2062 of FSU&#8217;s prestigious\u200c criminology department.<\/p>\n<p>The first\u2062 accusation of \u2062data falsification came in 2019 from Justin Pickett,\u2064 a \u200cprofessor \u200cat the State University of New York\u2062 at Albany. \u200cPickett and Stewart had co-authored one of \u2062the retracted studies published in 2011.\u2063 The study claimed to find a \u200ccorrelation between\u2062 growing\u2063 black and Hispanic populations and the public&#8217;s \u200ddesire for harsher \u200bcriminal sentences. However, Pickett discovered that the original data showed no\u2064 such\u2063 relationship and even suggested the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett also found other irregularities in the study, such \u2062as an \u200bincrease in the sample \u200dsize and a \u200csignificant\u200c reduction in\u200d the number of counties polled. These\u2063 issues \u2062raised doubts \u2062about the validity \u2062of the data. In an \u200canalysis for Econ Journal Watch,\u2062 Pickett concluded that scientific fraud was the\u2062 most likely explanation for the\u200c data irregularities in \u2063the retracted\u2062 articles.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart&#8217;s refusal \u200bto provide Pickett\u2062 with a copy of the original\u200d data for four months further\u2064 raised suspicions.\u2064 In emails to FSU administrators, Stewart \u2063expressed\u2064 feeling targeted and accused\u2063 Pickett of &#8220;essentially lynching&#8221; \u200dhim and damaging his academic character.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, FSU did not respond strongly to the allegations of\u2062 academic fraud. However, \u2064when the sixth study was challenged \u200cin \u200c2020, the university finally launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-lipson-durham-springs-the-trap-on-hillary-clintons-lawyer\/\" title=\"Charles Lipson: Durham Springs the Trap on Hillary Clinton\u2019s Lawyer\">full-scale investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State University fired Dr. Eric Stewart, Ph.D., on July 13, after retracting five racism studies. The termination letter, obtained by Retraction Watch, cited his behavior and &#8220;extreme&#8221; actions, ending a long-standing dispute over academic fraud allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1988009,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1988008","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}