I think there is a bit more to Noah Carl's firing than just him being a conservative working on controversial topics like race and intelligence (thread).https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1123376757229477889 …
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Carl was involved in OpenPsych, which presents itself like a legit academic journal, except that its review process only takes place within a small group of people with strange views about race and intelligence. Its editor is also its main contributor https://openpsych.net/paper/57 pic.twitter.com/qUjrAljj5k
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On Openpsych and the people surrounding it:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2018/12/no-objecting-cambridge-s-appointment-eugenicist-not-about-free-speech …
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What did Carl publish in OpenPsych? A piece on how ethnic stereotypes about crime are "reasonably accurate", base on a biased sample of 23: http://www.healthgeomatics.com/award-winner-in-dumb-research/ …
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Another piece on Islamic terrorism sourcing its data from this website: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/site/the-list.aspx …pic.twitter.com/rAAMLQNx81
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Carl used 4 different measures, of which 2 are not based on that website, and they are all quite highly correlated. In another paper, he removed incidents that did not meet a strict definition of Islamist terrorism, and found similar results:https://osf.io/bx5ne/
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