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FSU Prof Leaves $190,000 Job After Claims Of Fraudulent Racism Studies

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Why would he want to make something racist that is not?

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In the latest example of what happens when demand for racism exceeds supply, a black criminology professor has suddenly resigned from his $190,000-a-year post at Florida State University in the wake of accusations he distorted data with the purpose of "finding" racial prejudice where none existed.

With six papers retracted for data manipulation, Eric Stewart says he's been "essentially lynched" by "data thugs" (FSU)
Eric Stewart, who'd spent 16 years at FSU and is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, has for years been the subject of allegations of academic fraud. That's led to six of his research studies being retracted, and now the Florida Standard reports he's abandoned his exceedingly lucrative post in mid-semester.

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Or, more precisely, more racist than it already is.
 
From another article on this:

But Stewart is far from the only offender here.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist now serving as the president of ultra-elite Stanford, is being investigated for publishing papers with manipulated images in them.

Four former Harvard cancer scientists had a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences retracted for seeming data manipulation in February.

Former Yale biologist Carlo Spirli was identified this month as a serial data faker by the Office of Research Integrity, a federal watchdog.

Three top institutions; three major cases of professorial scamming — all from just the first quarter of this year.

And that’s to say nothing of the so-called “paper mills” found in China, Iran and elsewhere. https://nypost.com/2023/04/15/fsu-faker-shows-academic-fraud-crisis-is-real-big-and-ongoing/
 
Wouldn’t surprise me if this happened fairly regularly. One of my work-study jobs in college was in the psychology lab and I was helping a grad student with an experiment that involved rays and mazes. She told me one of the professors who had done the initial work was pushing the baby rats along the path in the maze that she needed them to in order to validate her work.
 
Sick-making but sadly not surprising, sigh. The article I linked discusses the “replication crisis” — a "beyond-disturbing phenomenon across psychology, sociology, economics and medicine in which the results reported in papers from august institutions can’t be duplicated," and claims that 62% of psych research (and 39% of economic research) aren't replicable.

A friend of mine who's a cognitive psychologist is coming into town Friday, and I'm going to ask him about this. (I do know through him that even when there is a blind or double-blind review, there is really no such thing as anonymity because the field is so small, and everybody knows everybody/recognizes instantly who wrote an article for publication.)
 
That would be an interesting discussion. I expect his viewpoint could be very illuminating and informative.
 
Moon said:
That would be an interesting discussion. I expect his viewpoint could be very illuminating and informative.
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IF he's forthcoming. He will be sitting at the luncheon table with fellow academics (other fields), so this ought to be fun. He will also be the only progressive, and I intend to beg him in advance to please, please not bring up politics. Like my sister and two very close friends who are progressive, he has ruined many a conversation about something else by spontaneously interjecting his unsolicited opinion on "Governor Wheelchair"--yes, in a conversation with me, he actually used this phrase to refer to our Governor. Arrrrgh.
 
Ah, so potentially interesting in more ways than one! I would doubt he’d be very candid in that setting, unfortunately.
 
Moon said:
Ah, so potentially interesting in more ways than one! I would doubt he’d be very candid in that setting, unfortunately.
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I think he would be re academic issues, but I hope he stifles himself about political topics. I just HATE people spouting off inflammatory statements in social settings, particularly when it's by rote. You know, a remark about "lovely weather" prompts a "Yes, but Trump/fill-in-the-blank sucks." Just eat your salad and shut UP, would you?
 
Yeah, a lot of people could learn from that.
 
It does, and it has been a growing problem for decades due to increased competition with China. It isn't limited to just the authors of those peer-reviewed studies, but also the reviewers as well. In one three year period (2012-2015) they had 1,500 papers retracted due to faked reviews, or approximately 15% of all retractions made during those three years.

64 more papers retracted for fake reviews, this time from Springer journals

This is officially becoming a trend: Springer is pulling another 64 articles from 10 journals after finding evidence of faked peer reviews, bringing the total number of retractions from the phenome…
retractionwatch.com

As flawed as the peer-review process may be, there is still no better process. There needs to be more transparency in the review process, and we can improve on the technology to detect the more obvious fraud. This article raises some good points:

What causes peer review scams and how can they be prevented? - Wiley Online Library, Sneha Kulkarni, May 2016
 
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grain 0' salt
 
Off topic but Jeff Bezos had an annual income of $180,000 a year forever. That's how he kept his income taxes to a bare minimum.
 
And our excellent academic system works once again.
 
And even more examples.
 
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