Florida University Fires Professor Over Dubious Racial Bias Studies

A Florida university has fired a professor after an investigation concluded he “demonstrated extreme negligence” in the data management of racial bias studies that could cause “unalterable” damage to the school’s reputation.

In a scathing five-page termination letter penned by Florida State University’s (FUS) Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, James Clark informed criminologist Eric Stewart that decades of his research “once thought to be at the forefront” of the profession were shown to contain “numerous erroneous and “false narratives.”

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“As outlined in the Notice of Intent to Terminate letter, you demonstrated extreme negligence in basic data management, resulting in an unprecedented number of articles retracted, numerous other articles now in question, with the presence of no backup of the data for the publications in question,” he added.

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“You have not pursued any remedial action, and you have even refused to cooperate with your FSU colleagues and coworkers who requested to work with you on these matters,” the letter continued.

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{snip} Stewart, who made $190,000 per year at FSU, falsely claimed there was a correlation between a criminal’s race and the public’s desire to see harsher prison sentences for said criminal. However, an investigation revealed no correlation and that the sample size had been increased to yield Stewart’s desired outcome.

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