{"id":96024,"date":"2023-09-15T11:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96024"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:19:05","slug":"96024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96024","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Academic Whose Work Was Cited As Proof Of \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 Is Fired For Falsifying Research.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Florida State University professor whose work was foundational to perpetuating the false narrative that there is widespread \u201csystemic racism\u201d infecting American society has been fired for falsifying data in his academic research on the subject.<\/p>\n

In a recently resurfaced\u00a0report<\/a> from last month, the New York Post revealed that Eric Stewart, an FSU criminology professor, had been fired by the university \u201con account of \u2018extreme negligence\u2019 in his research,\u201d as well as \u201cincompetence\u201d and producing \u201cfalse results\u201d in his nearly 20 years of work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d FSU Provost James Clark wrote in a\u00a0July 13 letter<\/a>\u00a0formally notifying Stewart of his firing.<\/p>\n

According to the Post, Stewart has had six studies published in major academic journals between 2003 and 2019 that were \u201cfully retracted,\u201d including a\u00a02019 study<\/a>\u00a0claiming the historical legacy of lynchings \u201cmade whites perceive blacks as criminals, and that the problem was worse among conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart\u2019s retracted research also included claims that racial disparities in criminal sentencing are racially motivated. In a 2015 study, for instance, Stewart suggested Americans supported tougher sentencing for Hispanics because they feared an increase in the U.S. Latino population and Latinos\u2019 potential economic success.<\/p>\n

Other retracted studies include a 2018 analysis which \u201csuggested that white Americans view black and Latino people as \u2018criminal threats,\u2019 and suggested that perceived threat could lead to \u2018state-sponsored social control,\u2019\u201d the Post added.<\/p>\n

Clark indicated in his letter that Stewart\u2019s other published works are \u201cin doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than own up to his actions, Stewart has since attempted to play the victim card and attacked Justin Pickett, a former FSU graduate student who reported Stewart for his unethical conduct. Following the launch of the investigation into his work in 2020, Stewart, who is black, claimed that by raising concerns about his faulty research, Pickett had \u201cessentially lynched [him] and [his] academic character.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to his $190,000 annual salary at FSU, Stewart\u2019s projects received millions in research grants from major groups and government agencies. According to the Post, the National Institute of Mental Health \u2014 which falls under the National Institute of Health \u2014 reportedly gave Stewart $3.2 million to research \u201chow African Americans transition into adulthood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart also reportedly received funds from the National Science Foundation, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, and the National Institute of Justice, a subsidiary of the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

The discovery of Stewart\u2019s falsified research and his subsequent firing is significant to understanding the left\u2019s ongoing war on American police officers. As\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0by Wilfred Reilly, an associate professor at Kentucky State University, Stewart is \u201c[p]robably THE academic [figure] responsible\u201d for the\u00a0debunked narrative<\/a>\u00a0that so-called \u201csystemic racism\u201d plagues U.S. police departments throughout the country.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Google Scholar<\/a>, for instance, Stewart\u2019s questionable \u2014 and in several cases, categorically false \u2014 works have garnered more than 8,500 citations by other researchers. Stewart\u2019s \u201cresearch\u201d has been used as a pretext by other academics, regime-approved media, and Democrat politicians to smear America\u2019s on-the-ground law enforcement officers as inherently \u201cracist\u201d towards non-white Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point [of this story] is that one of the [main] guys who built up the entire narrative of \u2018wokeness\u2019 just made it up,\u201d Reilly told The Federalist. \u201cThroughout the entire kind of racial reckoning, one of the things that I and others \u2026 have noticed is that these stories [about police brutality against black Americans] keep collapsing. The narrative of police genocide of African Americans turned out \u2026 to be complete nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reilly also referenced research conducted by the Manhattan Institute\u2019s Heather Mac Donald, whose analyses of publicly available data have debunked leftists\u2019 narrative that there is an epidemic of police killing unarmed black Americans. In a\u00a0USA Today article<\/a> published a few months after George Floyd\u2019s death, for instance, Mac Donald noted how even data from The Washington Post\u2019s database of fatal police shootings dispels such claims and predicted that \u201c[r]educing police resources will ultimately result in poorer service to the law-abiding residents of high-crime areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mac Donald\u2019s forecast ultimately came true. While the rise of Black Lives Matter and Democrat-generated attacks on police began under the Obama administration, it was Floyd\u2019s death that ushered in a new era of the left\u2019s war on America\u2019s police.\u00a0Democrat politicos<\/a>\u00a0and their\u00a0legacy media<\/a>\u00a0allies quickly hijacked Floyd\u2019s death to normalize street violence committed by their communist foot soldiers.<\/p>\n

The left\u2019s perpetuation of the false \u201csystemic racism in policing\u201d narrative and their subsequent actions not only killed people such as\u00a0David Dorn<\/a>, but countless others who suffered because their\u00a0Democrat-run cities<\/a>\u00a0defunded<\/a> local law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Following Floyd\u2019s death and the anti-police back it launched, there was a significant spike in\u00a0overall murders<\/a>, especially affecting\u00a0black victims<\/a>. According to Reilly, such statistics don\u2019t interest groups like Black Lives Matter because \u201ca focus on things that might actually correlate with a high loss of black life \u2026 [is] not what the movement was about.\u201d<\/p>\n

BLM \u201cwas about using outlier conflict between blacks and whites to get money,\u201d Reilly said. \u201cThe whole idea was to 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 turned out not to be real and they\u2019ve pulled back from the scene, now as the\u00a0owners of some nice properties<\/a>. And now we\u2019re left to clean up the mess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academic Whose Work Was Cited As Proof Of \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 Is Fired For Falsifying Research. A Florida State University professor whose work was foundational to perpetuating the false narrative that there is widespread \u201csystemic racism\u201d infecting American society has been fired for falsifying data in his academic research on the subject. In a recently resurfaced\u00a0report … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96025,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96024\/revisions\/96025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}