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The witch-hunt atmosphere in American academia continues to get worse. Hans Bader has this post<\/a> at Liberty Unyielding noting the recent ouster of Stephen Hsu as vice president for research at Michigan State University. Hsu’s crime was publicizing research done at his university, which is exactly what you would expect a VP of research to do. But the particular piece of research reached a Forbidden Conclusion.<\/p>\n

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year: David J. Johnson, Trevor Tress, Nicole Burkel, Carley Taylor, and Joseph Cesario, Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings<\/a>. Cesario is a psychology professor at MSU.<\/p>\n

Here is the abstract:<\/p>\n

Despite extensive attention to racial disparities in police shootings, two problems have hindered progress on this issue. First, databases of fatal officer-involved shootings (FOIS) lack details about officers, making it difficult to test whether racial disparities vary by officer characteristics. Second, there are conflicting views on which benchmark should be used to determine racial disparities when the outcome is the rate at which members from racial groups are fatally shot. We address these issues by creating a database of FOIS that includes detailed officer information. We test racial disparities using an approach that sidesteps the benchmark debate by directly predicting the race of civilians fatally shot rather than comparing the rate at which racial groups are shot to some benchmark. We report three main findings: 1) As the proportion of Black or Hispanic officers in a FOIS increases, a person shot is more likely to be Black or Hispanic than White, a disparity explained by county demographics; 2) race-specific county-level violent crime strongly predicts the race of the civilian shot; and 3) although we find no overall evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities in fatal shootings, when focusing on different subtypes of shootings (e.g., unarmed shootings or \u201csuicide by cop\u201d), data are too uncertain to draw firm conclusions. We highlight the need to enforce federal policies that record both officer and civilian information in FOIS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An interview with Cesario on Hsu’s blog has this introductory paragraph.<\/p>\n

Corey and Steve talk with Joe Cesario about his recent work which argues that, contrary to activist claims and media reports, there is no widespread racial bias in police shootings. Joe discusses his analysis of national criminal justice data and his experimental studies with police officers in a specially designed realistic simulator. He maintains that racial bias does exist in other uses of force such as tasering but that the decision to shoot is fundamentally different: it is driven by specific events and context, rather than race.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This study is not alone in that conclusion. See this post<\/a> and the article linked there.<\/p>\n

But this result is taboo. It is heresy. It violates Articles of Faith. So anyone saying this must be burned at the stake, figuratively speaking. They must be ousted from academia, which must be kept pure and limited to Politically Correct results.<\/p>\n

After all, people arguing for PC positions will have more difficulty saying that there is no scientific basis for the Incorrect position if scientists are permitted to produce such a basis.<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago, I noted Steven Hayward’s useful phrase “policy-based evidence-making.” What we have here is policy-based evidence-obliteration. If researchers can be threatened with career destruction for producing forbidden results, then the research to produce such results will not be done, and advocates can point to its absence as validation for their positions.<\/p>\n

In economics, the free market generally works best at allocating resources, but government action is sometimes necessary to ensure that the market remains free. That is why we have antitrust laws, for example.<\/p>\n

So in academia, the marketplace of ideas generally works best to insure that the truth wins out, but it is painfully evident that this marketplace is in danger of collapse in contemporary academia. Government pays a big share of the bills of higher education. It must demand an end to witch-hunts and genuine diversity of viewpoint on faculties as the price of support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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