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is systemic in America’s law enforcement and American society has been fired for faking data and his studies have now been retracted.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

According, the fired professor makes bold claims about the intent of a group of people. When the substance of the claim is transposed to a question, it is also becomes an incriminating question ("Have you stopped beating your wife?").

  • "Why do white people want harsher sentences for blacks and latinos?"
  • "Why do you, if you are a white person, want harsher sentences for blacks and latinos?"

These derivations aren't his direct doing but comes with the discourse from whoever cites him or "systemic racism" e.g activists, journalists, online hecklers.

The list of bold claims from the professor:

which included information used in his study in which he claimed that the history of lynchings made whites perceive blacks are criminals and that the issue was more prevalent among those who are politically conservative.
Stewart's studies in which he claimed that whites wanted longer sentences for Latinos and blacks had to be retracted. Stewart stated in the work “…that this effect will be greater among whites… where socioeconomic disadvantage and political conservatism are greater.”
A 2018 study which has now also been retracted suggested that because white Americans perceive Latinos and blacks as “criminal threats,” that perception could lead to “state-sponsored social control.”
Stewart claimed in a 2015 study which has now been retracted that Americans desired harsher sentences for Latinos because their numbers were increasing and they were becoming more successful economically.

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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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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