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A tenured professor of Criminology at Florida State University has disappeared from his $190,000/year position after his latest accusation of ginning up numbers for a paper in order to make it seem that racism is more common than it apparently is.

He was called out this time by one of his co-authors on a 2011 paper who laid out the shenanigans point by point.

All of Prof Stewarts’ papers have been retracted (six of them since 2006).  All of them had falsified data–changing the sample size, in order to meet his goal.

Bear in mind that this had been going on since 2006 and it took until now for any action to be taken.

Stewart told administrators that Pickett’s claims ‘lynched me and my academic character’ and said that was particularly significant given that five of his six studies were race-related, and Stewart himself is black.

Of course he used the word ‘lynch’, because black or something.

As we found out during the ‘hockey stick’ global warming bruhaha, there is a lot of money out there for former scientists and academics to make sure that their studies meet the political goals of the day.

From Prof Pickett, who called out out the 2011 paper:

‘There’s a huge monetary incentive to falsify data and there’s no accountability. If you do this, the probability you’ll get caught is so, so low,’ Pickett told the Florida Standard.

Peer review means squat for publication.  And integrity apparently means nothing in the face of a lot of cash.  Studies get squashed and sidelined all of the time if they don’t line up with the ‘accepted science’. 

This is just one example.