Renowned criminology professor who 'proved' systemic racism fired for faking data, studies retracted

A renowned criminology professor who "proved" that racism is systemic in America’s law enforcement and American society has been fired for faking data and his studies have now been retracted.

(Eric) Stewart, who was a vice president and fellow at the American Society of Criminology, which honored him as one of four highly distinguished criminologists in 2017, was fired after nearly 2 decades of his data was found to have “false results”

https://archive.is/https://thepostmillennial.com/renowned-criminology-professor-who-proved-systemic-racism-fired-for-faking-data-studies-retracted

Unfortunately, journalists can not stop using anchor tags like idiots. The links highlighted as the 2015 and 2018 study are different pages for the same paper.

The Social Context of Criminal Threat, Victim Race, and Punitive Black and Latino Sentiment, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26990987

Social Problems, Volume 66, Issue 2, May 2019, Pages 194–221

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TIL there is a lawsuit between Valve Corporation and Leigh Rothschild.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67569388/valve-corporation-v-rothschild/

One of the patents in question is US 8,856,221, documented a few times as "The 221 Patent".

Whenever I look up something about Leigh Rothschild, a reoccuring theme is patent infringement lawsuits. The EFF even wrote an article about him.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/federal-circuit-hits-stupid-patent-owner-fee-award

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I had a harder time than I should finding "Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere" by the European Southern Observatory (2017) because of the second-hand sources that clutter the top of search engines.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1726/ (uses cookies)

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I had read "Transmaxxing: the Incel-To-Transwoman Pipeline" by Sanjana Friedman and found the quote:

“4 years ago I was an edgy, right-wing, anti-SJW teen who was borderline MGTOW. Now I’m a gay catgirl dating an anarchist transgirl.”
Anonymous, https://archive.is/MRwud#selection-643.0-653.56

I've watched these people too long to be mystified by their actions. They, especially teenagers, don't believe in the ideas they adopted beyond thinking it would help them get laid. That's why they easily jump to either sides of extremes.

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I came across a blog post:

https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/one-author.html

I was reminded of how I wanted my writing to show up under certain keywords in a search engine index.

I learned for the first edits it didn't because I wrote "(keyword)" on the heading but not in the paragraph. Therefore, I added a sentence just to use the keyword in the paragraph.

Then I sat back, re-read what I wrote, and couldn't help but think I made my writing more robotic and less human. Because a human looking at the page would infer the purpose of the section by the heading. The extra sentence in the paragraph was, if I wasn't writing for a machine to add onto an index, unnecessary.

As a side note, I'm aware that some writers entitle themselves authoritatively as "thought leaders", and that corporations anticipate using AI to generate massive amounts of writings.

(Considering the consequences of AI thought leaders.)

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I think there are too many consecutive posts about dreams. So I'll post about a game I didn't beat as a child.

https://archive.org/details/OregonTrailMacintosh

I remember trying to cross a river without having to pay $5 and failing, and getting my character killed because a bullet richocheted back off a rock or tree in the hunting mini-game.

I find the game much easier to beat now. What's still hard is not to have an NPC die to dysentery or snakebites.

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