The Patriot Post® · Academic Fakery Equals Made-Up Racism

When the “experts” in the academic class use their positions of power to promote a particular political worldview, disaster ensues.

As this author has canvased before, professors have huge incentives to lie about data. In the case of Professor Eric Stewart of Florida State University, it got him a six-figure salary, job security, and a position of power from which he could spread the lies he fostered. In his 17 years on the job, the criminology professor was subject to several complaints about data fabrication and inaccuracies in his scholarly works.

Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, commented: “Stewart’s case looks like an instance of someone who knowingly and deliberately made stuff up. Why? And how did he get away with it for so long? We may never know the full answer, but he does fall into the general category of race hustler: someone who sought personal benefit by attempting to aggravate racial tensions.”

At the University of Minnesota, there is a whole cadre of academics who use their DEI positions to publish pseudo-academic papers to forward the cultural Marxism of the Left’s political views.

These biased professors work in places at the university called the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, School of Public Health, and the Antiracism Research center. The University of Minnesota is deeply invested in making a connection between health inequities and racism. However, many of the researchers are ill-qualified for the research, as they do not hold medical degrees. This specific type of credentialism is actually important for the types of claims these professors are making, especially regarding issues like abortion and crime rates among races and the health outcomes associated therein.

For example, one professor, Rachel Hardeman, was paid $800,000 to study “racialized violence” and the corresponding health inequities along racial lines. This person is a public health professor without a medical degree but is familiar with critical race theory and uses it routinely to try to link and politicize her work. (Though if you actually read some of her papers, she admits there is no real link between racism and health inequities.)

Perhaps the biggest scandal is the forced retraction of three other professors at the University of Minnesota for similar infractions. Janette Dill, Stuart Grande, and Tongtan Chantarat published a paper entitled “Transactional and transformative diversity, equity, and inclusion activities in health services research departments” on January 8. This paper has been retracted by the authors because “their characterisation [sic] of specific data (personal narratives and experiences) was either inaccurate, misleading, or false.”

Ultimately, these academics are harming victims of actual hate crimes and racism; they aren’t bringing about social justice. These “scholars” are also undermining what little credibility the “expert class” has left in American society. The fact that dishonest teachers like these are given authority over the next generation of college students is the real crime. It robs them of truth.

Perhaps that is the ultimate ideological point. After all, the leftists’ first premise is that there is no God, and if there is no God, then morality is a social construct. If morality is a social construct, then there is no incentive to tell the truth. Truth, according to them, is subjective. Who’s to say their “truth” is anymore true than that which can be proven by data, common sense, reason, and science?

It is a recipe for ignorance and chaos, and these professors should be held to account for their dishonesty.