In my latest for the WSJ, I document how the California Billionaire Tax proposition is built on a bed of statistical lies and data manipulation by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, the two economists who helped design the proposal.
California caught in major fraud bombshell as BILLIONS in taxpayer money intended for sex crime victims are going to FAKE claims, probe says https://t.co/LkA8vsQWmB
If a historian on the right abused evidence in this way, they'd face career ruination.
When Boston University's Quinn Slobodian does it, he gets a Guggenheim fellowship, book awards, and a Hewlett Foundation grant.
Academia's rot runs far deeper than a simple crisis of rigor.
I pick on Slobodian in the thread below as an egregious and recurring offender. But this sort of quote-editing by leftist scholars is *extremely* common in academia.
Here's another by Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity where they transform an attack on Apartheid into a defense of it.
As you can tell by her patch, the deputy pictured here is from Butler County, Ohio -- not Pennsylvania. This tweet is rapidly approaching 200k views and it's totally made up crap.
21 years after the trial’s conclusion, Tom Mesereau remains one of Michael’s fiercest defenders. Unwavering, devoted, and committed to truth and justice until the very end. #MJINNOCENT
"E. Jean Carroll and Christine Blasey Ford were credible and upstanding examples of female empowerment, but this perfectly lucid woman who has politics I disagree with is obviously a liar."
My most MAGA-coded belief is that E. Jean Carroll is a lunatic who has made over half a dozen false allegations against men, never once filing a police report, and that her lawsuit against Trump was garbage only propped up by a heavily politicized NY Justice system.
Exclusive: Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll.
Acting AG Todd Blanche, who represented Trump, is recused from the case. W/@PaulaReidCNN and @KaraScannell
https://t.co/mY1Q7lrT9e
Sarah Kellen was described as "a knowing participant in the criminal conspiracy" by Judge Alison Nathan at the 2022 sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell. Now, she is designated by the DOJ as a "victim." Her name and "identifying information" are redacted throughout the "Epstein Files"
For those you that are interested in the Jerry Sandusky story, the "boy in the shower" has died unexpectedly. You should read this article about him, because much of what you were told about him was a lie. He was never abused by Sandusky. https://t.co/VH23ePVGye