Mooney on the changing files at johnlott.org
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Chris Mooney writes that he hasn't received an adequate response from Lott's webmaster about the changing files on Lott's website either....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:10 PM • 3 Comments •
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February 28, 2004
February 27, 2004
Lott tries to rewrite history, again.
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Summary: Lott now claims that an incriminating file where he had been caught cooking his results was not meant to have been on his website and was only there because his webmaster screwed up. Unfortunately, his latest story is full...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Lott's bizarre claim about Florida 2000
Category: misc
Allan Lichtman posts on spoiled ballots in Florida 2000. (Hat tip: Ralph Luker). He rightfully refers to Lott's claims about ballot spoiling as "bizarre". Lott claims: African-American Republicans who voted were 54 to 66 times more likely than the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:58 PM • •
February 25, 2004
Yet more book reviews
Category: MaryRosh
Amazon has now deleted the first two of the three Lott reviews of Targeting Guns and edited the third one to remove the praise of Lott. However, while they deleted two, I found three more of his self-reviews. I've...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:25 AM • 1 Comments •
February 23, 2004
Found on Amazon.de -- another Lott review
Category: MaryRosh
After finding some clues on Amazon's Canadian site that revealed three more of Lott's reviews, I decided to check their other sites. On their German site I found the review below. This review seems to have also been deleted...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:57 PM • 1 Comments •
February 22, 2004
Even more self-reviews by Lott
Category: MaryRosh
When I saw the story about the Amazon.ca unmasking anonymous reviewers, I took myself over there to see what I could find. Well, they had fixed the glitch, but I noticed that for some reviews, the location given for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:41 PM • •
Milloy, at it again
Category: Milloy
A study that found a link between antibiotic use and breast cancer has been in the news and sure enough Steve Milloy has attacked it, calling it "baloney". One interesting thing I've noticed about Milloy is the large number...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:56 PM • •
February 20, 2004
Reaction to my Milloy post
Category: Brignell
There has been quite a bit of reaction to my post on Milloy. Michael Peckham writes "Milloy's criticism may be right some of the time, but only when it fits his preconceived anti-regulatory agenda. " John Quiggin, at Crooked...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:37 AM • 15 Comments •
February 19, 2004
Gender genie on Mary Rosh
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Seems like everybody is trying out the Gender Genie, which analyses a piece of text and guesses the gender of the writer. So I gave it Mary Rosh's writings to analyse. The verdict? Male. Well done, Gender Genie!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:53 PM • 3 Comments •
February 17, 2004
In the red corner, John Lott; in the blue corner, John Lott
Category: MaryRosh
When I looked at the reviews of More Guns, Less Crime I wasn't sure that this review was written by Lott: If you are interested in the facts, read this book, July 10, 2000 Reviewer: A reader from Miami,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:49 PM • 6 Comments •
February 15, 2004
Anonymous reviewers at Amazon exposed
Category: MaryRosh
Apparently, authors have been using reviews at Amazon.com to anonymously praise their own books and pan rival books. Who knew? It seems a glitch at Amazon's Canadian site revealed the names of all the anonymous reviewers. And yes, I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 AM • 1 Comments •
February 13, 2004
Steve Milloy, shill
Category: Milloy
Apart from the one or two posts about John Lott I've also posted about ozone depletion denial, creationism and astroturf. All these topics, as well as Lott, come together in the person of Steve Milloy. Milloy runs a website...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:04 PM • 3 Comments • 6 TrackBacks
February 10, 2004
Lott cooks some more statistics
Category: safest-means
A while ago I wrote how Lott had seriously misrepresented NCVS data and given dangerous advice when he claimed that in robberies and assaults passive behaviour "is by far the most likely to result in injury". Lott has now...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:48 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 9, 2004
Ozone depletion denial, part III
Category: CFCs and ozone
I wrote earlier about ozone depletion deniers John Ray and Sylvain Galineau. I've found another such denier and his name is John Lott. Lott wrote a positive review* of Environmental Overkill, a book written by Dixy Lee Ray with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:59 PM • 15 Comments •
February 7, 2004
People who live in glass houses...
Category: misc
The Wall Street Journal has published an op-ed by Kimberley Strassel who writes about Bellesiles: Mr. Bellesiles, when asked to explain, provided ever-more outlandish excuses: that his notes had been lost in a flood, that his Web site had...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:31 PM • 7 Comments •
February 6, 2004
Lott in the LA Times
Category: links
Kevin Drum is rather annoyed than the LA Times has published an op-ed by Lott. Lott's argument is that if someone doesn't answer a question he can attribute to them whatever answer is most damaging to them. If we...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:29 PM • •
February 5, 2004
Ozone hole denial
Category: CFCs and ozone
I while ago I wrote on John Ray's claims that environmentalists were wrong about ozone depletion. I think it is quite clear that subsequent research has vindicated the concerns of scientists about ozone depletion. The refusal of Ray to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:36 PM • 30 Comments •
February 4, 2004
Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime"
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Helland and Tabarrok's paper 'Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime"' has been published in Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy. Their objective was to correct for serial correlations in the crime data. I explained earlier how,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:10 PM • •
