{"id":15780,"date":"2012-09-10T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15780"},"modified":"2012-09-12T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:37:27","slug":"elizabeth-warren%e2%80%99s-academic-research-criticized-before-harvard-hired-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15780\/elizabeth-warren%e2%80%99s-academic-research-criticized-before-harvard-hired-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren\u2019s Academic Research Criticized Before Harvard Hired Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/09\/10\/harvard-law-dean-cited-affirmative-action-in-1993-elizabeth-warren-hiring-academic-qualifications-questioned-in-1990\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Charles C. Johnson<\/a> of the Daily Caller unearthed a scathing review of U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren\u2019s book that was published before Harvard Law School hired her in 1995:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1991, Rutgers Professor Phillip Schuchman reviewed Warren\u2019s co-authored 1989 book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1893122158\/thedaical-20\" target=\"_blank\">As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America<\/a>\u201d in the pages of the Rutgers Law Review, a publication Warren once edited.\u00a0Schuchman found \u201cserious errors\u201d which result in \u201cgrossly mistaken functions and comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>Warren and her co-authors had drawn improper conclusions from \u201ceven their flawed findings,\u201d and \u201cmade their raw <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/09\/10\/harvard-law-dean-cited-affirmative-action-in-1993-elizabeth-warren-hiring-academic-qualifications-questioned-in-1990\/\">data<\/a> unavailable\u201d to check, he wrote. \u201cIn my opinion, the authors have engaged in repeated instances of scientific misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work \u201ccontains so much exaggeration, so many questionable ploys, and so many incorrect statements that it would be well to check the accuracy of their raw data, as old as it is,\u201d Schuchman added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further reporting by Johnson indicates the reason for HLS\u2019 willful oversight \u2013 an affirmative action policy that placed a premium on hiring female and minority faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>For months now Warren\u2019s Senate candidacy has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/elizabeth-warren-struggles-with-response-to-native-american-questions-again\/2012\/05\/03\/gIQAz8pLzT_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">plagued by her use of alleged Cherokee ancestry<\/a> to get academic jobs she might otherwise have failed to get.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, Warren told the Democratic National Convention, \u201cWe celebrate success.\u00a0 We just don\u2019t want the game to be rigged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least not after she\u2019s won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles C. Johnson of the Daily Caller unearthed a scathing review of U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren\u2019s book that was published before Harvard Law School hired her in 1995: In 1991, Rutgers Professor Phillip Schuchman reviewed Warren\u2019s co-authored 1989 book \u201cAs We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America\u201d in the pages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1042,1193,2975,487,159,178],"class_list":["post-15780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-affirmative-action","tag-campaign","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-harvard","tag-massachusetts","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15801,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15780\/revisions\/15801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}