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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: Baghdad
In July last year, Lott, armed with no evidence at all, claimed that Washington DC had a higher murder rate than Baghdad. Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Lott stuck to his guns, even demanding that the New...
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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...
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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...
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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
Category: Baghdad
In my previous entry on the Baghdad murder rate I noted that pretty well every paper that had reported the Baghdad murder rate had given a vastly higher figure than Lott's number and the only paper out of step...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:26 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Baghdad
In a June 26 op-ed Lott claimed that gun ownership was making Iraqis safer: "Yet, despite Iraqis owning machine guns and the country still not under control, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pointed out that Baghdad is experiencing fewer murders...
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Category: Baghdad
Keneth Miles describes Lott and Lehrer's claims that crime increased in Washington DC after the gun ban as an excellent example of cherry picking. Earlier, I observed that the only justification Lott offered for another claim he made about...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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