Posted on 05/26/2015 7:30:45 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
The mainstream media have some egg on their face today after being forced to retract their reports on a gay-marriage study that was found to have been based on fraudulent research.
IMG_0004The study, which appeared in the December 12, 2014 edition ofScience, claimed that support for same-sex marriage among voters increased with the use of door-to-door canvassing, especially if the canvasser was gay.
Supporters of gay marriage, who were excited about the results, have now been brought back to reality after one of the authors of the study, Donald Green, a Columbia University political scientist, asked Science to retract the article. Green has removed it from his website after being contacted by two political scientists from UC Berkeley, who told him that they found significant irregularities when they tried to replicate the study.
A deeper look found that one of the study’s co-authors, UCLA grad student Michael LaCour, had more than likely falsified the data in the study.
LaCour has confessed to “falsely describing at least some of the details of the data collection.” He was scheduled to become an assistant professor at Princeton this summer, but that reference has disappeared from his personal website. Apparently Princeton has at least some ethical standards.
The liberal media fell for this study, mainly because of their support for gay marriage. I doubt they would have been as enthusiastic had the study shown the opposite results.
Don Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.
That implies that they have shame. Which isn't the case.
Like global warming/climate change, cook the books to fit the desired outcome.
Not at all, they will continue to cite this study for years to come.
You can’t shame the shameless - they’re Leftists, after all...
Gee...reminds me of climate change studies.
The liberal media fell for this study,it isn’t like they have used facts a lot any way.
When will we realize, everything the left uses (polling, studies, data, their only policies, and defense of those policies) are totally fabricated.
Who would ever have believed that perv’s would be legitimized and granted special treatment such as men using the ladies room at schools and other public buildings etc .
That implies that they have shame. Which isn't the case.
Yep. More like grafitti on their wall, soon overpainted.
Reminds me of the increase of domestic violence on Super bowl Sunday.
Duped? Yeah, right. That's why there have been so many front-page retractions and denunciations. They're all in the same bed together, and ew. Thanks Academiadotorg.
I will always picture the MSM as a doofus walking around with a “Dupe Me” sign on his back.
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