Rutgers Study - Peer Review and Fake News and Opinion

A recent N.Y. Time regional op-ed declared the Rutgers Study null and void. You can read the entire opinion piece here. I only found out about the now discredited report when looking at a blog that declared the issue settled.

At this blog we have reviewed the report produced from the team at Rutgers in painstaking detail. We have commented on it as well. So I was very intrigued to say the least. So I went in search of the details behind this op ed piece.

The author is from the New Jersey Police Perspective which from what I could tell is an advocacy group essentially espousing left of center positions. One only needs to read their press releases attacking Walmart, the virtue of the NJ Income Tax and how NJ has shortchanged the poor, higher education seekers, 1 in 5 NJ residents etc. But that is frankly not relevant to this topic.

I looked for the detail behind the alleged facts in the NY Times op ed. Guess what? There aren't any. Unlike the team who produced the Rutgers study, Forsberg doesn't see fit to publish any of her data for it to be reviewed by others. When she talks about immigration, does she mean legal or illegal immigration? We don't know because she won't tell us.

And frankly, just because she says it doesn't make it good for me. Sorry.

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