Archives for May, 2003
Lott misses some news reports
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 31, 2003 In his interview in the Illinois Leader Lott says: “If you look at the national news reports for ABC, NBC and CBS during 2001, they had about 190,000 words of contemporaneous gun crimes stories on their television morning and evening news reports. The average story is only 250 words or so. During that whole year…
Lott misrepresents New York Times
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 30, 2003 Several people have commented on the irony of Lott attacking the New York Times for a “Pattern of Deceit”, but let’s look at what he says in his article: As an example, take the major 20,000 word series on “rampage killings” the Times published during 2000. The paper declared that the evidence they compiled “confirmed…
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Posted by Tim Lambert on May 30, 2003 David Glenn’s article on academic blogging in the Chronicle of Higher Education mentions the role of blogs in the investigation of Lott’s conduct. William Sjostrom writes “Lott always releases his data.” But Lott has not released the data for his 1997 survey.
Rather than admit a mistake, Lott misleads again
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 30, 2003 In Lott’s latest entry he has given up trying to support his claim that “the sensible girl ran for where the family guns were stored. But they were locked up tight.” and responded to this post, where I pointed out that Cummings et al clearly stated that they controlled for national trends, but Lott none…
Lott keeps ducking on the Merced question
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 29, 2003 Lott has blogged for the third time about the Merced murders: Taken together, the different articles in these various posts indicate that the gun was locked; it was placed in a way that was not accessible by the children; both the father and the great-uncle, the Rev. John Hilton, believed that if the gun had…
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Posted by Tim Lambert on May 28, 2003 Tom Spencer mentions the Washington Post‘s criticism of Lott. ArchPundit finds Lott’s criticism (in this interview)of poorly done gun control research ironic. Arie discovers the John Lott story.
Lott refuses to admit to a mistake in his Merced story
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 28, 2003 Lott has a new entry on his blog where he posts a transcript from Fox News that apparently has the father of the murdered children saying: “If a gun would have been here today, I’d have at least a daughter alive.” I was mistaken when I suggested that the quote was a fabrication. The quote…
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Posted by Tim Lambert on May 27, 2003 The Washington Post zings Lott for throwing stones at the New York Times from his glass house. Matt Welch also comments, while Greg Beato thinks that the New York Times has hit rock bottom when even John Lott is denigrating its integrity. Andrew Chamberlain invites readers to join in an online debate about Lott and…
Lott’s false claim about Cummings’ paper
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 27, 2003 The Fox News story that Lott cites contains some other falsehoods: For several years, gun control advocates have been quoting a study that reached a very different conclusion. University of Washington doctors claimed that in a dozen states which had safe storage laws, 39 children’s lives were saved. But the study has been widely discredited…
Lott tries misdirection again
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 27, 2003 Lott has started a blog and responded to the questions I raised about his claims about the Merced pitchfork murders: Fox News interviewed the father of the dead children and reported the following: “Lott cited a Merced, Calif. family whose guns were put away because of the state’s safe storage law. John Carpenter, who lost…