{"id":2030496,"date":"2023-09-13T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/academic-whose-work-was-cited-as-proof-of-systemic-racism-is-fired-for-falsifying-research\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:40:24","slug":"academic-whose-work-was-cited-as-proof-of-systemic-racism-is-fired-for-falsifying-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/academic-whose-work-was-cited-as-proof-of-systemic-racism-is-fired-for-falsifying-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic fired for fabricating research used to support &#8216;systemic racism&#8217; claims."},"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\">22<\/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%2Facademic-whose-work-was-cited-as-proof-of-systemic-racism-is-fired-for-falsifying-research%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=2030496&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>A Florida State \u200cUniversity professor whose work was\u200d foundational to \u200bperpetuating the false narrative that there is widespread \u201csystemic \u200cracism\u201d\u2064 infecting American society has been fired for falsifying data in his academic research on the subject. <\/p>\n<p>In a recently resurfaced <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/04\/professor-fired-for-faking-data-to-prove-whites-want-longer-sentences-for-blacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> from last month, the New York Post revealed that Eric Stewart, an FSU criminology professor, had been fired by \u2064the university \u201con account of \u2018extreme negligence\u2019 in his research,\u201d as well as \u201cincompetence\u201d\u2064 and producing \u201cfalse\u200c results\u201d in his nearly 20 years \u2064of work. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1375874572\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c48589e813fa97027be9fcbf067c340b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c48589e813fa97027be9fcbf067c340b\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI do not see how you can teach our students\u2062 to be ethical \u200bresearchers\u2062 or how the results of future research \u200bprojects conducted by you could be\u2063 deemed as trustworthy,\u201d FSU Provost James\u2064 Clark \u200dwrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Final-Termination-Letter-7.13.23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July 13 letter<\/a> formally\u2062 notifying Stewart of his firing. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, Stewart has had six studies published\u200d in major academic journals between 2003 and 2019 that \u200bwere \u201cfully retracted,\u201d\u2063 including a <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/lasr.12453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2019 \u200cstudy<\/a> claiming \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-contributor-criticitized-for-blaming-2020-rise-in-latino-trump-supporters-on-cultural-identity-crisis\/\" title=\"MSNBC Contributor Criticitized For Blaming 2020 Rise In Latino Trump Supporters On \u2018Cultural Identity Crisis\u2019\">historical legacy<\/a> of \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/academic-whose-work-was-cited-as-proof-of-systemic-racism-is-fired-for-falsifying-research\/\" title=\"Academic fired for fabricating research used to support 'systemic racism' claims.\">lynchings \u201cmade whites perceive blacks<\/a> as criminals, \u2064and that the problem was worse among conservatives.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Stewart\u2019s retracted research also included claims that racial disparities in criminal sentencing are \u2064racially\u200c motivated. In a 2015\u200d study, for instance, \u2064Stewart suggested Americans\u200c supported tougher \u200dsentencing for Hispanics because \u200cthey feared an increase\u2064 in the U.S. Latino population and Latinos\u2019 potential economic success. <\/p>\n<p>Other retracted studies include a 2018 analysis which \u201csuggested that white Americans view black and Latino people as \u200b\u2018criminal threats,\u2019 and\u200c suggested that perceived threat could lead to \u200c\u2018state-sponsored social control,\u2019\u201d the \u2063Post\u200b added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c54d6ec7793bb1d1bdfed68f7e9b67ee fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c54d6ec7793bb1d1bdfed68f7e9b67ee\"><\/div>\n<p>Clark indicated in his letter that Stewart\u2019s other published \u2062works are \u201cin doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather \u200cthan\u200d own up to his actions, Stewart has since attempted to play the victim card and attacked Justin \u2064Pickett, \u2062a\u200b former FSU \u2064graduate student who reported Stewart for \u200chis unethical \u200bconduct. Following the launch of the\u200c investigation\u2063 into his work in 2020, Stewart, \u2063who is black, \u2064claimed that by raising concerns about his\u200b faulty research, \u200dPickett had \u201cessentially lynched \u200c [him] and [his] academic character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition\u2062 to his\u200d $190,000 annual salary at FSU, Stewart\u2019s projects received millions in research grants from major groups\u200b and government agencies. According to \u2063the \u200bPost, the \u200cNational Institute of Mental Health \u2014 which falls under the National Institute of Health\u2064 \u2014\u2063 reportedly gave Stewart $3.2 million to research \u201chow African Americans transition into adulthood.\u201d \u200d <\/p>\n<p>Stewart also reportedly received \u200dfunds\u2064 from\u00a0the National Science Foundation, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, and the\u2063 National Institute of Justice, a subsidiary\u200b of the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-348e1ef0341633f041f71290e26faacf fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-348e1ef0341633f041f71290e26faacf\"><\/div>\n<p>The \u2064discovery of Stewart\u2019s falsified research and\u200b his subsequent firing is significant to understanding the left\u2019s ongoing war on American police officers. As \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wil_da_beast630\/status\/1700899618161095154?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> \u200d by Wilfred Reilly, an associate professor at Kentucky State University, Stewart is \u201c[p]robably THE \u200cacademic \u2063 [figure] responsible\u201d for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/07\/03\/police-black-killings-homicide-rates-race-injustice-column\/3235072001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debunked narrative<\/a> that so-called \u201csystemic racism\u201d plagues U.S. police departments throughout the country. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&#038;user=akY2fnAAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google \u200bScholar<\/a>, for\u200b instance, Stewart\u2019s questionable \u2014 and in several cases, categorically\u2064 false\u200d \u2014 works have garnered more than 8,500 citations\u200b by other researchers. Stewart\u2019s \u201cresearch\u201d has been used as\u200b a \u200cpretext by other academics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-strategically-timed-political-arrest-to-coincide-with-press-conference-detailing-evidence-of-biden-corruption\/\" title=\"DOJ timed political arrest to coincide with Biden corruption evidence press conference.\">regime-approved media<\/a>, and Democrat politicians to smear America\u2019s on-the-ground law enforcement officers as inherently \u201cracist\u201d towards non-white Americans. \u200d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point \u2062 [of this story] \u200b is that one of the [main] guys who built up the entire narrative of \u2018wokeness\u2019 \u2062just made it up,\u201d\u200d Reilly told The Federalist. \u200c\u201cThroughout the entire kind of racial \u200breckoning, one of the things \u200dthat I and others \u2026 have noticed is \u200dthat these stories [about police brutality against black Americans] keep collapsing. The narrative \u2062of police genocide of African Americans turned out \u2026 \u200cto be\u2062 complete nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reilly also referenced research \u200bconducted by the Manhattan Institute\u2019s\u200b Heather Mac Donald, whose analyses of publicly available data have debunked\u2062 leftists\u2019 \u2062narrative that \u200cthere is \u2063an epidemic of \u2063police killing unarmed black Americans.\u2064 In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/07\/03\/police-black-killings-homicide-rates-race-injustice-column\/3235072001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USA Today article<\/a> \u2063published \u200da few months after George Floyd\u2019s death, for instance, Mac\u2064 Donald noted how even data from The Washington \u200dPost\u2019s database of\u200d fatal police shootings dispels \u2062such claims and predicted that \u201c[r]educing police\u200b resources will ultimately\u2064 result in poorer service to the law-abiding \u200bresidents \u2063of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-abolishing-police-is-a-disastrous-idea\/\" title=\"Report: Abolishing Police Is a Disastrous Idea\">high-crime areas<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mac\u200c Donald\u2019s \u200dforecast ultimately came true. While \u2062the rise of Black Lives Matter and Democrat-generated attacks on police\u200c began under the \u200cObama administration, it was \u2064Floyd\u2019s death that ushered in\u200d a new \u2062era of the \u200dleft\u2019s war on America\u2019s police. <a href=\"https:\/\/rsc-hern.house.gov\/democrats-push-defund-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat politicos<\/a> and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/06\/defund-police\/612682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legacy media<\/a> allies \u200bquickly hijacked Floyd\u2019s death\u2063 to normalize street \u2063violence committed by\u200b their communist \u200cfoot soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The left\u2019s perpetuation of \u2063the false \u201csystemic racism in policing\u201d narrative and \u2062their subsequent actions \u200bnot only killed people such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/david-dorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Dorn<\/a>, \u200dbut countless others who\u200c suffered because their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/crime-and-justice\/commentary\/homicide-rates-break-records-black-lives-clearly-dont-matter-blm-or\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat-run\u2064 cities<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cities-reverse-defunding-the-police-amid-rising-crime-11622066307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defunded<\/a> \u2063 local law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>Following Floyd\u2019s death and the anti-police back it launched, there was a significant spike \u2062in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/archive\/horowitz-nyt-admits-homicides-in-2020-likely-topped-20000-most-since-1995-but-cant-figure-out-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overall murders<\/a>, especially affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/black-americans-paid-enormous-price-for-defund-the-police-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">black \u200cvictims<\/a>. According to \u2063Reilly, such statistics don\u2019t interest groups like Black \u2062Lives Matter \u200dbecause\u2063 \u201ca focus on things that might actually correlate with a \u200dhigh loss of black life \u2026\u2064 [is] not\u2064 what the \u200cmovement was about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BLM \u201cwas \u2062about using outlier conflict between blacks\u200b and whites to get money,\u201d\u2062 Reilly said. \u201cThe whole idea was \u200bto take these very isolated, white cop or white vigilantes on black male cases and present them as normal. They did that for a while. It\u200c turned\u2063 out not to be real and they\u2019ve \u200dpulled back from the scene, now\u200d as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/17\/black-lives-matter-spent-at-least-12-million-on-mansions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">owners of some nice properties<\/a>. And \u200bnow we\u2019re left to clean up the\u2063 mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-84a95e0043dcce580b64139f229b1b02 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-84a95e0043dcce580b64139f229b1b02\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>professor, has been terminated for fabricating data in his research on &#8220;systemic racism.&#8221; The New York Post uncovered this revelation, highlighting Stewart&#8217;s influential role in promoting the false narrative. His dismissal from Florida State University comes as a consequence of his academic misconduct, discrediting his work and raising questions about the validity of his claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2030497,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/2030496","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}