According to Retraction Watch, RAND Corp was forced to withdraw a report that recommended increased spending on "family preservation" and "kinship care" because it was based on severe underestimation of lifetime interactions with CPS -- off by a factor of 10.

According to LittleSis, Rand Corp is a nonprofit defense think tank funded 80% with government dollars. Leadership has included Condoleeza Rice, Tim Geithner, and Chuck Hagel. Carlos Slim, a Rand Corp Trustee and primary shareholder of the NYT, gave $100,000,000 to the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Iniative and $250,000 to the Glinton Global Initiative.

Emily Putnam-Hornstein, the USC professor who noticed the discrepancy and organized the retraction demand has degrees from Yale, Columbia and Berkeley and is director of the Children's Data Network. The study's author, Jeanne Ringe, was among those who vetted the Affordable Care Act. She initially dismissed the 10-fold data discrepancy.

What, exactly, is going on, here? Was this a genuine research mistake? Or a deliberate attempt to minimize the number of kids being removed from homes by the government? NOTE: The researchers' letter includes many links to studies of child abuse rates.

I will include the complete text of the letter in the Comment Section so you don't have to view the Word Doc linked in the article.