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Andrew Chang writes a lettter to the Vancouver Sun which published a Lott editorial full of his usual cooked numbers. Chang also links to an old Usenet thread where he, Mary Rosh and I were involved. Oddly enough, Lott and...
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Boffo blog tells the story of a Lott presentation at a workshop about a decade ago: I was not prepared for how truly awful the paper was. His argument concerned how expensive elections have become in this country. ......
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Kevin Drum is displeased that the LA Times published another op-ed from John Lott: The man is a fraud and the Times demeans itself by allowing him space on their pages....
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Sadly No gives Lott's latest op-ed the short shrift it deserves. Update: Hunt Stilwell also writes about the stupidity of Lott's argument....
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A couple of weeks ago Xrlq wrote about me: He's the Australian blogger who aspires to do to John Lott what Clayton Cramer did to Michael Bellesiles. Unfortunately, he doesn't do a very good job; while Cramer uncovered overwhelming...
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I have posted some of my emails to the firearmsreg mailing list from September and October 2002. This shows some of the initial discussion of Lott's mysterious survey. Read them here....
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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....
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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...
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Kevin Drum is dismayed that the Economist has printed a letter from Lott: Contrary to your claims of the Americanisation of armed robbery in Britain, one could only hope that robbery in England and Wales was truly becoming Americanised ("You're...
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The Journalist's Guide to Gun Policy Scholars and Second Amendment Scholars is a site that provides journalists with a list of "credible, articulate scholars" to consult about gun policy questions. It used to contain a listing for John R. Lott...
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