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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Married Florida data scientist axed for refusing to alter COVID-19 stats was fired from university job

2020-05-27

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ... for having affair with a student and charged with stalking, threatening him with revenge porn, writing a 342-page manifesto on their sex life

Rebekah Jones led a team of Florida Department of Health scientists and public health officers to create and design a comprehensive COVID-19 dashboard

The 30-year-old said in a May 5 email that she was fired for refusing to 'manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen'

But Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that Jones was canned because of insubordination and called her 'disruptive’

DailyMail.com can reveal that she was fired in 2017 from Florida State University when she was a PhD student and instructor for having an affair with her student

Jones was charged with three counts of cyberstalking her student Garrett Sweeterman, then 21, who filed a restraining order against her

She allegedly created a 'revenge porn' website called SurvivingGarrett and sent the link to online boards focusing on women's issues and the #metoo movement

Jones posted at least 60 pages of a 342-page manifesto with a narrative of the affair with Sweeterman, including screen grabs of sexts between the two

She claims in the essay that the fling with Sweeterman led to a pregnancy. She gave birth to a little girl in mid-2018 and shares an eight-year-old son with her husband

Posted by:Skidmark

#17 Her 15 minutes are almost up. Tick tock

Posted by: Lex 2020-05-27 14:02

#16 Writes a detailed 350 page book about having sex with (at least 1) a student. Last week being asked to commit fraud by the government, details are a bit fuzzy.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-05-27 13:33

#15 In an interview late Friday on CNN she finally cited some detail, after several days of vague statements.

Yes. Florida is not New York, New Jersey or Michigan. I'm sure she's lawyered up now and walking a tight rope. It will be a contest between her lawyer's advice and CNN's editors' coaching. She gets it wrong, some part of her anatomy will be caught in a wringer.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-27 12:21

#14 Linda Tripp = lying skank, according to the media

Paula Jones = lying skank, according to the media

Tara Reed = lying skank, according to the media

Blasey Ford = heroic truth teller, according to media

Julie Swetnick = only Avenatti would touch that one.

Stormie Daniels = only Avenatti would touch that one.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders = lying skank, according to the media

Kayleigh McEnany = lying skank, according to the media.

See the pattern?

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-27 12:15

#13 From Frank G.’s link:

Jones has not alleged any tampering with data on deaths, hospital symptom surveillance, hospitalizations for COVID-19, numbers of new confirmed cases, or overall testing rates — core elements of any assessment of the outbreak and of federal criteria for reopening. And Jones acknowledges Florida has been relatively transparent — for which she herself claims some credit — and relatively successful in controlling the pandemic.

She has, however, suggested Health Department managers wanted her to manipulate information to paint a rosier picture and that she pushed back. In an interview late Friday on CNN she finally cited some detail, after several days of vague statements.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-27 12:14

#12 What does 'Shares an 8 year old son' mean?

Woman is fugginkookoo, but again with misleading headlines.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-05-27 11:52

#11 She's getting the media darling treatment, so the truth takes a bit of digging.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-27 11:05

#10 More detail on why she was fired

Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-27 09:23

#9 Then, guys, I must be missing something. If I need to cough up a dollar, let me know!

Posted by: Clem 2020-05-27 09:14

#8 Clem, Rob is accurate

Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-27 09:11

#7 She's a liar and insubordinate.

Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-27 09:09

#6 "Rebekah Jones led a team of Florida Department of Health scientists and public health officers..."

So how could she be the "lowest-ranking member" of a team that she lead??

Definitely seems like a weirdo, but is the story about her refusing to alter stats or a biography/rap sheet of her?

Posted by: Clem 2020-05-27 06:43

#5 ^Who's the dad?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-27 03:43

#4 She gave birth to a little girl in mid-2018

Better than giving birth to a full sized girl, I suppose.

Posted by: gorb 2020-05-27 00:59

#3 Like, who cares about her proclivities?

It speaks to patterns of behavior.
Whacky in uno, Whacky in omnibus, or however that Latin saying goes.

Nice summary, by the way, Rob. 'Tis a pity actual journalists can't do as well.

Posted by: SteveS 2020-05-27 00:38

#2 No one asked her to alter data. They asked her to temporarily disable the export capability until they had verified the data.

She also didn't "lead" anyone. She was a data entry clerk managing entering the data into a commercial service that generates the reports for you. She was the lowest ranking person on the team, and could have been replaced with anyone computer literate.

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-05-27 00:21

#1 Like, who cares about her proclivities? If she refused to alter data, good for her. Weird that the article lists a bunch of stuff totally irrelevant vis-a-vis the COVID-19 stats.

Posted by: Clem 2020-05-27 00:15

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