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Complaint Review: Carol Longoria, J.D., University of Texas - Austin Texas

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  • Carol Longoria, J.D., University of Texas 201 West Seventh Street Austin, Texas United States of America

Carol Longoria, J.D., University of Texas Behavior is Subverting the Mission of a University Austin, Texas

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The holder of a law degree, Carol Longoria, J.D. works for the Office of the General Counsel of the University of Texas System, as well as in the University of Texas at Austins (UT) Office of the Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, where her title is Open Records Coordinator. 

The purpose of Open Records laws generally  and of Texass Public Information Act, specifically -- is to provide the public with benefit of transparency into how tax-funded institutions operate. 

Mark Regnerus is a UT associate professor in sociology who took $785,000 from anti-gay-rights groups to produce a study booby-trapped against gays, known as The New Family Structures Study (NFSS).

Regnerus got the bulk of his money from The Witherspoon Institute, whose top authorities are
notorious anti-gay bigots with long and shameful histories of defaming gay people with distortions of the scientific record.

W. Bradford Wilcox is the director of the Witherspoon program through which Regnerus is chiefly funded. Wilcox is on the editorial board of the Elsevier journal that published Regnerus on June 10, 2012 without benefit of valid peer review; Social Science Research.

Regneruss study, published without benefit of valid peer review, features a methodology so inconsistent with minimum standards that a group of 8 professional associations including the American Medical Association filed an amicus brief
in which the Regnerus study is analyzed as methodologically unsound. The President of the American Sociological Association has signed a letter along with over 200 Ph.D.s and M.D.s to Social Science Research expressing concerns about the Regnerus studys lack of intellectual integrity and the sleazy process through which it was published.

The published study besides being methodologically invalid contains a whopping lie; Regnerus claims that the funding sources played no role at all in the design or conduct of the study, the analyses, the interpretations of the data, or in the preparation of this manuscript. Witherspoon is making that same false claim on a stand-alone website it created to promote the study. Both Regnerus and his Funders have engaged in a campaign of deception to hoodwink the public into believing that Regnerus did his study independently of influence from his gay-hating funders.

In truth, Regneruss Witherspoon funder Wilcox was issued a Regnerus study consulting contract for data analysis to which UT assigned the UT EID or Doc ID number ww2897.  The record shows that Wilcox was paid $2,000 for that one contract.

A Public Information Act request sent to UT asked for all Regnerus-study-related communications between Regnerus and his Witherspoon funder Brad Wilcox. In response to that request, UTs Carol Longoria sent a letter on university letterhead to the Texas Attorney General  the Republican Greg Abbott -- asking him for authorization not to disclose the requested communications. In that letter, UTs Carol Longoria wrote that Professors Regnerus and Wilcox collaborated on the data collection and analysis that formed the basis of Dr. Regneruss publication.

In other words, UT and Ms. Longoria acknowledge that UTs Mark Regnerus wrote a despicable and deliberately deceptive lie into his published study.

A university of integrity would not seek to shield a faculty member from accountability for publishing a deliberately misleading lie in a scientific journal.

I called Ms. Longoria and told her that at this point, if UT is interested in showing the world that it is more interested in upholding a public image of academic integrity than in shielding a lying-mouthed, gay-bashing professor, it will make a public acknowledgement that UTs Regnerus lied in a published study, and do everything it can to help the public to understand the inappropriate relationships that Regnerus has conducted with his studys funders.

Digging in her heels, UTs Longoria said that UT will do no such thing, and that it will wait for the Attorney Generals decision on whether to release the requested communications.

UTs and Ms. Longorias behavior subvert the mission of a university, as a university should above all be committed consistently to the highest achievable standards of academic integrity.

Ironically, Ms. Longoria wrote in her blog on 9/14/2012 about the difficulties that Hispanic female
professionals can face due to prejudices. Now here she is, taking money from UT to enable gay bashers to continue to use a scientifically invalid study as a weapon against innocent gay human beings in the courts, in politics, on TV, on radio and in magazines, newspapers and online venues.

UT and Ms. Longoria are not doing the academically honorable things. The academically honorable things would include, but not be limited to: 1) issuing press releases, acknowledging the fact that UTs Mark Regnerus published a willfully deceptive, documented lie in a hoax study he had published via inappropriate and corrupt procedures involving the funders of his study, and 2) committing -- to the public -- to fully investigating and disclosing all details of Regneruss inappropriate relationships with his studys funders.

Longoria is a horrid hypocrite, one minute deploring the impact of prejudice on one minority group, the next minute serving as an enforcer of prejudices against another minority group.

As of publication of this report, UT and its Open Records Coordinator Carol Longoria, J.D. are exploiting the laws pertaining to the Public Information Act in ways that violate the intent of that law. The Public Information Act is supposed to help keep tax-funded institutions honest by giving the public access to those institutions records.

UT and Carol Longoria instead are abusing the laws in an attempt to shield UTs Mark Regnerus from accountability for having published a lie in a scientific journal. No respectable university would behave this way.

As a point of reference, UT professor Charles Groat conducted a study on fracking, concluding that fracking is safe, without disclosing that he is on the board of a fracking industry company and that he holds over $1 million of stock in that company. When watchdog groups brought Groats conflicts of interest to UTs attention, UT at first scoffed. The Public Accountability Initiative then brought extra pressure to bear, whereupon UT agreed to review Groats study. 

So the bottom line here is, that left to its own devices vis--vis academic integrity, the University of Texas at Austin can be counted on to do the wrong, morally bankrupt thing, and Carol Longoria, J.D. can be counted on to assist UT in doing the wrong, morally bankrupt thing.

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