The war on #Woke : Florida State University professor accused of faking data to make racism seem more common

A criminology professor at Florida State University suddenly left his $190,000-a-year position after being accused of fudging data to make racism seem more common than it is.

Professor Eric Stewart has had six of his studies – one of which dates as far back as 2006 – retracted amid allegations that he fabricated data by altering sample sizes.

Stewart has denied such criticisms but after the sixth incident in 2020 an FSU committee reconvened to address his record and findings.  Since last month, he has been absent from Florida State University, perhaps marking the end of his 16-year career at the school and a years-long investigation into his academic malpractice, the Florida Standard reported.

In 2011 Stewart co-authored a study that claimed to demonstrate that as black and Hispanic populations grew, the public increasingly demanded longer sentences for black and Hispanic criminals. 

The study was intended to test whether the public held prejudicial views toward minority groups and whether that affected sentencing.

Stewart was eventually called out by a peer, Justin Pickett, another criminologist at the University of Albany with whom he had co-authored that paper. 

Pickett notes that the original, untampered data, showed that there was no relationship between the growth of minority groups and the severity of criminal sentences handed to them.

He published his own paper pointing out issues in their paper, some of which he said were introduced just before publication.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11963421/Florida-State-University-criminology-professor-leaves-accused-falsifying-data.html