Are liberals capable of honesty? The scam de jour is a fabricated survey by a
gay activist with a PH.D. The American
Spectator reported the following:
Two aspiring political
scientists exposed a widely referenced study, which maintained that homosexuals
discussing gay marriage with citizens proved “capable of producing a cascade of
opinion change,” as a total fraud.
Berkeley grad student
Joshua Kalla and Stanford professor David Broockman, eager to add to the
project with their own study, discovered that the survey firm identified in
“When Contact Changes Minds: An Experiment on Transmission of Support for Gay
Equality” maintained “no familiarity with the project,” “never had an employee
with the name of the staffer” believed as assisting the research, and “denied
having the capabilities” to conduct such an endeavor.
The debunking unleashed
myriad reactions, none as gleeful as the ones that greeted the initial study
late last year.
“Perhaps he meticulously
planned the whole thing with malice aforethought,” Duke sociologist Kieran
Healy speculates about
Michael LaCour, the gay UCLA Ph.D. accused of fabricating data. Widener
University law professor John Culhane, lashing out at how he imagines conservatives
will spin the news, argues at
Politico.com that proof of the concoction merely “tells us… that the gay
canvasser study should be tried again; properly, this time. Not that gay
canvassers have no effect.”
Doesn’t this sound
familiar? One of the biggest scams
perpetuated on the world is another survey that touts 97% consensus on man-made
global warming. Forbes reported the
following:
Global warming alarmists and their allies in the
liberal media have been caught doctoring the results of a widely cited paper
asserting there is a 97-percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused
global warming. After taking a closer look at the paper, investigative
journalists report the authors’ claims of a 97-pecent consensus relied on the
authors misclassifying the papers of some of the world’s most prominent global
warming skeptics. At the same time, the authors deliberately presented a
meaningless survey question so they could twist the responses to fit their own
preconceived global warming alarmism.
The only thing I’m alarmed about is a liberal
with a doctorate degree.
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