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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
December 31, 2003
Category: links
Will Baude has asked Julian Sanchez 20 questions, including a couple about Lott. When asked if Lott is a liar or not, he wrote: That depends on whether you count as a liar someone who's convinced himself that he's telling...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:44 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2003
Category: Baghdad
The New York Post has an article that claims that Baghdad has a lower murder rate than New York. The source, of course, is John Lott. Lott advances the numbers released by the 1st Infantry Division and deliberately conceals...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Baghdad
Earlier I commented on Lott's op-ed where claimed that Albuquerque and O'Hanlon got the Baghdad murder rate wrong. In an update on his blog, Lott writes: Update: Michael O'Hanlon, a co-author of one of the articles that I commented...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:04 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2003
Category: CFCs and ozone
On his blog, John Ray makes a remarkable claim: "Greenies" are wrong about ozone depletion. He writes: In 1991, the Greenies got everyone to ban CFC chemicals. CFCs were the normal gases that has always been used to make...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:35 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 22, 2003
Category: misc
The last time I looked at the reviews of More Guns, Less Crime at Amazon.com I noted how, after a negative review was posted, Lott would post a five-star review to push the negative review off the front page....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:38 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Say Uncle writes: Lott's credibility issues have essentially damaged any real positive impact his research may have had on the gun debate. It's a pity Lott and I are on the same side. He's not as bad as Bellesiles (who...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:50 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 19, 2003
Category: Bellesiles
A new edition of Arming America has just been drafted and Michael Bellesiles has written a response to his critics, excerpted at HNN. I read it, and do not find it even slightly persuasive. It sort of reminds me of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 17, 2003
Category: Baghdad
Last time I commented on Lott's claims about the Baghdad murder rate, I noted his pathological refusal to admit that he was wrong about the rate. Even though dozens of newspapers have reported that there are hundreds of murders...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:04 PM • 12 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
December 16, 2003
Category: links
Ken Miles links to my posts on Lott's anonymous reviews and writes: Tim Lambert has destroyed any possible remnants of John Lott's credibility....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:11 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 15, 2003
Category: misc
Howard Nemerov has a post defending Lott and responding to Chris Mooney's Mother Jones article. Unfortunately, he gets his facts wrong, leaves out inconvenient facts and indulges in fallacious arguments. I'll go through his post and correct these, but...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Kevin Drum links to the latest installments in my exposure of Lott's sock puppetry and generously nominates me for Best Single Issue Blog in the Koufax awards. In a clarification of the rules, John Lott's blog was ruled ineligible for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:47 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 13, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
Eagle-eyed reader Michael has spotted another one of those five-star reviews of Lott's books. This time it's at Barnes and Noble: A reviewer, from Madison, Wisconsin, April 19, 1999, Clearly written and a truly thought provoking book It is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 12, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
As well as giving his own books perhaps as many as ten five-star reviews, Lott has given one and two-star reviews to books by people who have annoyed him in some way. One author has been singled out by...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:55 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Fellow Lott-sockpuppet exposer Julian Sanchez links to the story of Washingtonian. Fellow Blosxom bloggers Brutal Hugs link to my exposure of Lott's anonymous Amazon reviews and write: The Brutal Hugs team is pretty varied in its views of guns,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:29 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 11, 2003
Yesterday I showed how Lott would respond to unfavourable reviews of More Guns, Less Crime with his own, anonymous, five-star reviews. Today we are going to look at his other books. I hope you are not one of those...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:25 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
Some commentators have not been persuaded that the reviews by "A reader from Swarthmore, PA USA" were really by Lott. Fine. I rummaged around in Google's cache and found older versions of the reviews of the books by Kevin...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:42 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
Links from Sadly, No!, Kevin Drum and Mark Gisleson. Roger Ailes reads some of Washingtonians's posts. Matthew Yglesias chastises the NRO for running an article by Lott on the Florida election. Brad DeLong comments on Lott's anonymous trashing of Hassett's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 10, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
I looked at some of Lott's anonymous reviews of other people's books on Amazon.com in this posting. Yesterday I found that Washingtonian had made a five-star review of More guns, Less Crime, just like Mary Rosh did. Today we...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:50 PM • 6 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
Links from Chris Mooney, Atrios and Buzzflash. Ted Barlow wonders what John Lott has to do to get fired from the AEI. "Sadly, No!" helpfully suggests that with two more personalities Lott can start a boy band. John Quiggin...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:34 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 9, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
Mary Rosh cut her posting teeth hawking Lott's research on Freerepublic.com in 2000, but she stopped posting there in 2001 and switched to Usenet. Fortunately, a poster called Washingtonian picked up the torch that Mary had dropped. From then...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:32 PM • 9 Comments • 4 TrackBacks
Category: UK
These are extracts from stories about homicides in England found by searching Factiva for "self-defence and (burglar or robber)"....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:33 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 5, 2003
Category: links
Congratulations to John Lott for making number 16 on Jesse Taylor's list of the Twenty Most Annoying Conservatives of 2003. Well done!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:13 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 4, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
Mark Kleiman has some apposite words from Master K'ung for Lott, while Chris Mooney calls me a "super sleuth". I'm just in it for the scooby snacks....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Benjamin Wallace-Wells has a most interesting article in the Washington Monthly about the intellectual decline of AEI. His first example is the case of John Lott. He writes: Had Lott been in academia, he would almost certainly have lost...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 2, 2003
Category: MaryRosh
You might recall how Mary Rosh posted a glowing review of More Guns, Less Crime to Amazon.com. (Lott claims, rather unconvincingly, that his son and wife wrote the review.) Well, Lott has posted an Amazon.com customer review of Joyce...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:49 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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