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July 30, 2003
July 28, 2003
askjohnlott.org
Category: askjohnlott
John Lott informs us about askjohnlott.org but warns us that it is not run by him and is "trying to create a negative impression"....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:28 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2003
Lott claims "vast majority" of research supports "More Guns, Less Crime"
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has an op-ed in the New York Post where he comments on the recent NYC City Hall shooting. Lott seems to believe that concealed handguns would have prevented the shooting. Lott's logic is especially hard to follow in this...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:58 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2003
Lott on Baghdad murders again
Category: Baghdad
Lott responds on his blog to Wyeth's accusation that he had no evidence for his claim about Baghdad murders. (My earlier comments are here.) Notice that Lott responds on a minor point, once again ducking the question of the coding...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:33 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Norton Internet Security blocks pro-gun websites
Category: misc
Vladimir Kushnir describes how Symantec's censorware blocks access to many pro-gun websites such as nra.org, under the category 'Weapons'. I checked, and he has accurately described which sites are blocked. (Though the Lott site that is blocked is actually a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:26 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 24, 2003
Links
Category: links
Paul Bruno writes: John Lott should be below anybody's standards, but since Lew Rockwell insists on publishing Lott's work, I cannot in good conscience keep the link to his site. Roger Ailes is rather unfair to Lott, implying that Lott...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:55 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Parallel worlds, part II
Category: links
Good responses by Henry Farrell and Ted Barlow to Randy Barnett's post that I mentioned yesterday. Saul Cornell (via email) writes: The comparison between the way historians have responded to the Bellesiles affair and legal scholars have responded to the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2003
Baghdad Murder Rate
Category: Baghdad
Chris Lawrence defends Lott against the charge Wyeth made yesterday. James Joyner also comments. Lawrence is correct when he points out that Lott's claims about Baghdad murders are not lies unless Lott knows them to be false, and, in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:33 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Parallel Worlds, Indeed
Category: links
In an interesting parallel to this Daniel Davies post, Randy Barnett, guest blogging at GlennReynolds.com thinks that the Left lives in their own world where the "facts" are different. He writes: On legal historian e-mail lists to which I subscribe,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 22, 2003
Links
Category: Baghdad
Tom Spencer finds Lott's misrepresentation of Duwe et al hilarious. The Wyeth Wire takes Lott to task for his completely unsupported claim that Baghdad has fewer murders than Washington DC. Of course, Lott's defence will be that he was just...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:33 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2003
Lott claims Duwe "gets the same results I do"
Category: misc
Last week I commented on Lott's LA Times editorial where he claimed that Examining all the multiple-victim public shootings in the United States from 1977 to 1999 shows that on average, states that adopt right-to-carry laws experience a 60% drop...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 18, 2003
Letter to Editor in Columbus Dispatch
Category: More Guns Less Crime
On July 12 The Columbus Dispatch published a letter from Paul van Doorn replying to an earlier letter from David Mayer that I commented on. Here is an extract (hyperlinks added by me): Mayer claimed the research of economist John...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:58 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 15, 2003
Lott makes his claims vaguer
Category: misc
Lott has an op-ed in the Kansas City Star which is recycled from a previous op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch that I commented on here. He has made an interesting change---in earlier versions he wrote: Other research, by David Olson...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 14, 2003
Lott's myths
Category: safest-means
A 1998 Lott op-ed called "The Cold, Hard Facts About Guns" has been getting some blogspace attention, with links from Margi Lowry, Joshua Claybourn and pecksnif. pecksnif, apparently unaware of Mary Rosh, even asserts: unlike Michael A. Bellesiles, who also...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
98%, 95%, 90% ...
Category: survey
Lott has a piece in the Los Angeles Times, which Elton Beard summarizes here. To me, the most interesting thing Lott writes is this: But the more than 2 million times each year that Americans use guns defensively are never...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 13, 2003
Links
Category: links
Terry Krepel criticizes WorldNetDaily's unbalanced coverage of Lott....
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July 12, 2003
Iraqi guns and dictatorship
Category: misc
A reader reminds me of another problem with Lott's attack on UN gun control efforts that I discussed yesterday. Lott argues that the UN's regulations would prevent people from obtaining small arms to resist totalitarian regimes. This is rather undercut...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 11, 2003
Lott vs the U.N.
Category: misc
Lott has an article in the National Review Online criticizing the UN's efforts to combat the illicit trade in small arms, which, according to the UN, are involved in 300,000 deaths in armed conflicts each year. That seems like a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
John Lott's online book reviews
Category: MaryRosh
This is an annotated list of John Lott's on line reviews at Amazon and at Barnes and Noble....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:33 PM • • 2 TrackBacks
New look
Category: meta
I've switched from hand-crafted html to using Blosxom for my blog. This lets me add some nice features like grouping postings by topic, an RSS feed, comments, search and so on. After a couple of hundred postings about John Lott,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:45 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 10, 2003
Donohue on multiple victim public shootings
Category: misc
In footnote 40 of his article The Impact of Concealed-Carry Laws (in Evaluating Gun Policy), John Donohue comments on Lott's claims about multiple-victim public shootings: In the wake of a recent school shooting in Germany that killed 14, Lott summarized...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Lott and the 2nd Amendment
Category: misc
In response to my comments about Potemra's review of The Bias Against Guns, Paul Blackman points out that Lott actually mentions the Second Amendment twice in his book. I've corrected my earlier posting to say "barely even mentions" instead of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 8, 2003
Michael Potemra reviews The Bias Against Guns
Category: misc
In the July 14 issue of National Review Michael Potemra has a review of The Bias Against Guns. He writes: Each of us has a favorite part of the Bill of Rights; for me---as for many others---it's the First Amendment....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2003
Links
Category: links
skippy isn't impressed by Lott's sleight of hand in proving he had a disk crash instead of offering evidence that he did a survey. skippy is rightly skeptical about the existence of witnesses to the disk crash. There are none....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Lott says that Mary Rosh was "based upon some type of truth"
Category: MaryRosh
Lott was on MSNBC's Buchanan & Press on May 26. From the transcript: PRESS: After that book came out, there was a person who showed up on the Internet by the name of Mary Rosh, who said you were the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:34 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Blosxom plugin: flavourmenu
My first Blosxom plugin. It creates a menu to let a user choose to see the current page in a different flavour, or the whole weblog in a different flavour. You can see it in action in the sidebar....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 3, 2003
Lott's letter to Science
Category: survey
Science has printed a letter from Lott (subscription required) responding to Science's editorial suggesting that the AEI should deal with Lott the same way that Emory dealt with Bellesiles: Donald Kennedy's editorial "Research fraud and public policy" (18 April, p....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 2, 2003
Links
Category: links
Jesse Taylor has written a letter to the editor about John Lott and also gives his take on John Lott's suggestion that Iraqi civilians should have more guns. Kaimipono is deeply skeptical. Bill Berkowitz describes it like this: Perhaps the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Why is this weblog called deltoid?
Category: meta
A deltoid is the concave triangular curve formed when a small circle rolls around the inside of a circle three times as big. Eric Weisstein's Mathworld has a nice animation as well as a description of its properties. I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:47 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 1, 2003
Kellermann's data
Category: Kellermann
After reading my posting yesterday, Alan Schussman was able to get Kellermann's data in seven seconds and wonders Evidence. Right there. Data. Available. How do people get away this this crap? At least Moody admitted that Kellermann released his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:14 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lott on gun carrying while wearing a dress
Category: links
Both Roger Ailes and Tom Spencer found the following exchange from Hardball rather bizarre: MATTHEWS: It could happen---teacher is at the blackboard chalking up some math lesson, kid runs up real fast, grabs it out of her drawer, he...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:48 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
