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University of Texas at Austin: Do a Real Misconduct Investigation of Mark Regnerus
University of Texas at Austin: Do a Real Misconduct Investigation of Mark Regnerus
http://www.change.org/petitions/university-of-texas-at-austin-do-a-real-misconduct-investigation-of-mark-regnerus-2#
UT HAS A HISTORY OF SWEEPING MISCONDUCT UNDER THE CARPET
Only tremendous outside pressures finally moved officials of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) to do the right thing by having an independent outside panel investigate UT Professor Charles Groat.
Groat had carried out a study on fracking wastewater (concluding that it was non-toxic) -- without disclosing that he was on the board of a fracking industry company and held $1.5 million of its stock.
UT CARRIED OUT A SHAM INQUIRY OF MARK REGNERUS
With its perfunctory "inquiry" of Mark Regnerus's "New Family Structures Study" (NFSS) in the summer of 2012, UT has again violated the public trust.
If UT had done a true inquiry, it would have disclosed to the public that W. Bradford Wilcox collaborated with Regnerus on NFSS study design. Then, it would have done a full misconduct investigation.
HUGE, MULTIPLE OUTSTANDING NON-DISCLOSURES OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Who is Brad Wilcox, and why is this so important?
In 2010, when the NOM-linked anti-gay-rights Witherspoon Institute organized the NFSS, Brad Wilcox was Director of Witherspoons Program for Marriage, Family and Democracy.
Witherspoons 2010 IRS 990 forms describe the NFSS as a major accomplishment of Wilcoxs Witherspoon program.
Wilcox recruited Regnerus to do the study for Witherspoon. After Witherspoon gave Regnerus a $55,000 NFSS planning grant, Wilcox collaborated with Regnerus on STUDY DESIGN. Then, Witherspoon arranged for Regnerus to have full study funding of $785,000.
It is A DOCUMENTED FACT that as Witherspoon Program Director, Brad Wilcox collaborated with Regnerus on the booby-trapped, anti-gay NFSS study design.
REGNERUS GOES BEYOND NON-DISCLOSURE, TO LYING
Nonetheless, in his study published in June, 2012, Regnerus LIES by saying that the funding sources were not involved at all in study design. In his Additional Analyses article published in November, 2012, Regnerus repeated that lie.
Wilcox also is an old crony to Regnerus and to James Wright, editor of the journal that published Regnerus -- Elseviers Social Science Research. Moreover, Wilcox is on the Social Science Research editorial board. It thus is hardly a surprise that when Wright was shown the documentation that Wilcox as a Witherspoon Program Director had collaborated with Regnerus on study design, Wright ignored that documentation, and published Regneruss lie for a second time.
Formulating and/or changing a study design to produce a study result desired by a funding agency constitutes misconduct.
For a researcher to lie about his relationships with his anti-gay-rights funders, in the pages of a scientific journal as UTs Mark Regnerus has done, twice very seriously deviates from ethical research standards.
In the wake of the UT Groat scandal, UT is pretending that it is reforming its policies, which it has confessed were not sufficient to preventing flimflammery in research during the period Regnerus did the NFSS.
For UT, finally doing a real misconduct investigation of Regnerus will merely be a necessary part of the schools finally getting its academic house in order.
UT Associate Professor Mark Regnerus is a shameless liar, with no autonomy whatsoever from his anti-gay-rights funders. The evidence and documentation already assembled proving that beyond all doubt goes far, far beyond what is stated above in this petition text.
UT must now carry out a full misconduct investigation of Mark Regnerus, if it wishes to begin to repair the public perception that the school is not at all trustworthy.
To:
Robert A. Peterson, UT, Research Integrity Officer
Randy L. Diehl, Dean, UT College of Liberal Arts
Mark Regnerus, UT Associate Professor
Gary Susswein, UT Media Contact
Tara Doolittle, UT Media Contact
Steven W. Leslie, UT Provost
Michelle Bryant, Media Contact, UT College of Liberal Arts
William Powers, UT President
Nancy Brazzil, UT, Deputy to the President
Charles A. Roeckle, UT, Deputy to the President
Geoff Leavenworth, UT President's Office, Chief Communications Officer
Board of Regents, UT
Francie A. Frederick, UT, General Counsel to the Board of Regents
Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., UT Chancellor
Mark Hayward, Director, UT Population Research Center
Christine L. Williams, Chair, UT Department of Sociology
David Ochsner, UT, Media Relations
Patricia Ohlendorf, UT, Legal Department
Do a Real Misconduct Investigation of Mark Regnerus
Sincerely,
[Your name]
More:
http://www.change.org/petitions/university-of-texas-at-austin-do-a-real-misconduct-investigation-of-mark-regnerus-2#
Facebook Is Down, Mobile Apps Still Working For Some — Second Big Tech Outage Of Day
Source: Tech Crunch
Facebook appears to be down right now. Its the second big outage of the day after Googles.
For now, mobile apps are still working for some. Some writers can load everything with their phone, but its not the case for everyone. You can still technically access your Facebook feed, but not through your browser
Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/facebook-is-down-mobile-apps-still-working-second-big-tech-outage-of-the-day/
Better link pending
See also:
The system is down: Facebook crashes in wake of epic Gmail failure
Its a dark day for the Internet: Weve confirmed that yes, Facebook is at least intermittently down for lots of users around the globe.
In fact, it looks like its worse that just down DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com shows a unique error message for the site: Huh? http://www.facebook.com doesnt look like a site on the interwho.
And this sad news comes just a few hours after we confirmed widespread Gmail outages. If we start seeing Fail Whales, thatll make some kind of social media nightmare trifecta.
More:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/10/facebook-is-down/
Facebook encountering DNS issues, making it unavailable for some users
Facebook has been encountering some DNS issues this afternoon that are making it unavailable to many users. The sites Domain Name System servers are not directing folks to its site, causing it to appear as if the network is down completely.
As of this writing, its been down for some 20 minutes at the very least, and there are a lot of people that are pretty upset. It appears that visiting a Facebook subdomain, o.facebook.com, is letting users access Facebook, proving this is a DNS issue.
This is Facebooks first major outage since October 11, when the social network went down in several countries worldwide. At the time, there were rumors that the site had been hacked, but Facebook denied this, and instead blamed DNS test for European outage which lasted more than an hour.
As usual, hoards of Twitter users have tweeted their concerns:
More:
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/12/11/facebook-encountering-dns-issues-making-it-unavailable-for-some-users/
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