If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract | Jukka Savolainen https://t.co/25aJdMqkAe
— Quillette (@Quillette) June 18, 2023
“In 2020, five psychologists asked the editors of PNAS to retract their study of racial bias in police shootings. PNAS, which stands for the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, is one of the most prestigious multidisciplinary journals in the world. Retraction is an outcome no scholar wishes to experience because it signifies a serious research error and, as such, entails considerable reputational damage.”
Was it because of they made up data or because their calculations were wrong. Nope.
“Some observers have suggested that the retraction was politically motivated. The study, which showed no evidence of racial bias in police shootings, had been used in political debates in ways that challenged calls for radical police reform; calls that had grown louder in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Heather Mac Donald, a research fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, claimed the article was retracted because she had cited it in a congressional hearing and in essays published in the Wall Street Journal and other right-leaning media outlets. Others denied this claim. Most importantly, Dr. Joseph Cesario, the senior author of the retracted article wrote, in response to Ms. Mac Donald, “We retracted the paper because we overstepped with the inferences we made from our data.” In other words, he maintained the reason was not political but motivated by purely scientific considerations.”
The narrative must be maintained at all costs, even if it means loss of credibility of some of the hive workers.
The truth? What is truth? Is your truth my truth?
Hah!
It is a matter of easily demonstrated fact that blacks are heavily over represented relative to their population percentage in the category “perpetrators of violent crime”. This is readily found in the statistics published yearly by the FBI and other governmental agencies. I would think it would be a very short if A, then B deduction that if they were over represented among perpetrators then they would also be over represented in the category of “police interactions” and the various ramifications of that. In the linked FBI 2019 table, blacks committed 4078 of 7964 recorded incidents of “murder and non… Read more »
It has become painfully obvious that attributing the cause for every negative outcome for African Americans to systemic racism is an obvious smoke screen. And I don’t think most people will tolerate the pretense any longer. The crime situation in the cities is already past critical and pretending that it’s the fault of the police or the general public trying to defend themselves is a sick joke. Something is going to have to give soon.