Prof Fired For Linking To Study Finding No Racism In Police Shootings; HMD Cites The Same Study--Profs Retract It

Unless this is stopped, it will be the end of academia.

Here's a summary of the study:

Psychologists Joseph Cesario of Michigan State and David Johnson of the University of Maryland analyzed 917 fatal police shootings of civilians from 2015 to test whether the race of the officer or the civilian predicted fatal police shootings. Neither did. Once “race specific rates of violent crime” are taken into account, the authors found, there are no disparities among those fatally shot by the police. These findings accord with decades of research showing that civilian behavior is the greatest influence on police behavior.

MSU physicist Steve Hsu merely linked to the study and was fired from an administrative position because of it. Mac Donald cited the study in a piece arguing against the central thesis of BLM...so the authors retracted it.

This is utter madness.

Blogger still sucks. Formatting a complete train wreck.