Journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “His Name Is George Floyd,” are still unclear why they were told they couldn’t read from their book or talk about systemic racism to a room full of high school students in Memphis.

Two days before an event at Whitehaven High School, they said they were “blindsided” by the last-minute restrictions, which they believed event organizers issued in accordance with Tennessee laws restricting certain books in schools. They said they’d also been told the week before the appearance that their book wouldn’t be distributed at the event.

One thing is for certain, the authors said: The students paid the price ultimately.

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    And that means that all other studies done by other researchers, using different methods, studying aspects of the phenomenon are also wrong?

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        Oh, I know. We all know. They only have one way of speaking because all their ideas com from the same “think tanks”.

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      It means that the premise they’re doing research on needs to be reevaluated. Most new research used his research as a baseline to conduct their own research. It means we need to redo the experiments that were related to the original papers but also it would be ideal to complete each piece of that assholes research over again to get the actual data and then rework all papers based off of the accurate data.

      The problem is that thousands of research papers used this man’s data and all of them and the research inspired by them need to be retested with the knowledge of the erroneous data in the core information that formed the hypothesis in the first place.

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        This isn’t bio research. This sort of research is just statistics. Each study can be taken by itself even if it’s inspired off of a bad paper.