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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: Appalachian
Bob Somerby nails Bernard Goldberg's repetition of Lott's false claim that the media deliberately concealed defensive gun use in the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law....
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Category: Appalachian
Lott's favourite example of the "Bias Against Guns" is the story of the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law. Lott performed a superficial analysis of the news stories about the shootings and found that very few of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
(All of my postings on the shootings at the Appalachian School of law are here.) Lott has a report of a conversation with Mikael Gross on his blog. In The Bias Against Guns Lott claims that Gross pointed his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:22 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
On his blog, Lott offers an excuse for the fact that in his book and on his blog he had not mentioned that Ted Besen contradicts Bridges' claim to have used a gun to disarm Odighizuwa: I have gotten...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:42 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
Glenn Reynolds links to this Dave Kopel article and says that it shows that the New York Times reporting on guns was "riddled with amateurish errors and apparent deception". Speaking of which, here is Kopel: What if a gun...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:27 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
Lott has a posting responding to my comments on his claims that the news coverage of the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law was biased. I wrote: Unfortunately, Lott's counting methodology is flawed, his count missed half of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:46 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
After Lott claimed that biased news coverage of the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law deliberately omitted a defensive gun use, I did my own analysis of the news stories and found that the alleged bias was the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
Lott has an article in the National Review Online where once more misleads his readers about what happened at the Appalachian School of Law: "Last year, two law students with law-enforcement backgrounds as deputy sheriffs in another state stopped the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:44 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
Tom Maguire has an interesting post which collects some links to blogspace discussion about the Appalachian Law School shootings. One interesting thing is that Lott and Kopel independently made the same error---they both claimed that the New York Times did...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:44 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Appalachian
Tom Spencer believes that I have essentially destroyed one of Lott's core arguments and wonders why pro-gun people continue to support him. There are two contradictory stories about what happened at the Appalachian Law School: Besen said that Odighizuwa set...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:44 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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