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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
May 20, 1996
Category: Kellermann
The authors of the bibliography are quite correct when they state that a case-control study could measure a net protective effect of firearms. EdgarSuter writes: "could" if death were the only legitimate measurement of the protective benefits of guns. Wrong....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:13 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 17, 1996
Category: Kellermann
Edgar Suter writes: In Kellermann's most recent study of homicide (Kellermann et al. "Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home." NEJM Oct 7, 1993; 329(15):1084-1091.) notes "Two hundred nine victims (49.8 percent) died from gunshot wounds."...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:48 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 16, 1996
Category: Kellermann
The study controlled for literally dozens of other factors, including criminality and illicit drugs. Furthermore the extra homicide risk associated with firearm ownership was not from shootouts between drug dealers or gangs, but domestic homicides. Dr. Paul Blackman writes: No....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:25 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kellermann
Dr. Paul H. Blackman writes: But let's get back to the estimates of gun ownership by the cases and the controls. OK. Unlike Dr Suter's straw man argument this is a real threat to the study. If gun ownership of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:01 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kellermann
A limitation on the earlier (43-1) study is not necessarily a limitation on the later case-control study. The authors of the bibliography are quite correct when they state that a case-control study could measure a net protective effect of firearms....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:38 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 15, 1996
Category: Kellermann
Daniel D. Polsby writes: Unless I am seriously mistaken, one would find that crack cocaine dealers and other persistent criminals are disproportionately likely to possess firearms and to be murdered by others using firearms. To place firearms at the heart...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 1996
Category: Kellermann
Edgar Suter writes: Dr. Kellermann's subsequent research "finding" that a gun in the home increases risk used a method that cannot distinguish between "cause" and "effect." Kellermann's illogical conclusion would be like finding more insulin in the homes of diabetics...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:06 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 9, 1996
Category: USA
Lawrence Kennon writes: The following documents exactly the kind of "junk science" being foisted off on the public by the medical profession, and in particular the CDC and the NEJM. It does nothing of sort. There are dozens of falsehoods,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:48 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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