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John Lott in his Fox news column claims: During the 2000 election, with Bill Clinton as president, the economy was viewed through rose-colored glasses. According to polls, voters didn't realize that the country was in a recession. Pgl has the...
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Posted on April 8, 2008 2:16 PM • 13 Comments
John Lott claims: The final numbers will be out in March, but the initial information makes it look as if 2007 will be the coldest in a decade. So much for the claim that "the probability that 2007 would be...
Posted on January 22, 2008 12:36 PM • 55 Comments
Jason Soon is very angry that I dared to criticize John Lott in this post. I wrote about Freedomnomics (where Lott claims that women's suffrage caused a massive increase in the size of the government): Lott doesn't like women's suffrage...
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Posted on July 15, 2007 2:06 PM • 305 Comments
Sadly, No has turned all the partisan right-wing commentary at Town Hall into haikus. An example: Ann Coulter Fact: Women are dumb. Didja hear that, Time? Newsweek? I want the cover! And they weren't being unfair. Here it is from...
Posted on July 6, 2007 10:01 AM • 51 Comments
Josh Marshall suggests that Karl Rove was getting his allegations of voter fraud that lead to the U.S. Attorney firing scandal from an article by John Lott. He doesn't have a link to the article, but here it is, posted...
Posted on April 25, 2007 2:08 PM • 3 Comments
Carl Bialik, the Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy" writes about some of the dubious numbers used by both sides on the debate about guns. This one should be familiar to my readers:...
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Posted on April 20, 2007 1:36 PM • 10 Comments
The editorial in the Australian today stated: With memories of the 35 killed at Port Arthur still raw, many Australians would be shocked to learn that the gun lobby in the US pounced on the Virginia Tech massacre to call...
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Posted on April 19, 2007 1:12 PM • 28 Comments
The Christian Science Monitor reports on a plan to effectively do away with the electoral college: Picture it: On election day in some future year, a presidential candidate ends up with the most popular votes but not enough electoral votes...
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Posted on June 23, 2006 7:43 AM • 25 Comments
Ever since Lott started at the American Enterprise Institute there have been people there who have wanted to get rid of him. I was forwarded a copy of Lott's final email to AEI staff. It suggests that he was...
Posted on April 12, 2006 10:43 AM • 12 Comments
Someone edited John Lott's wikipedia entry to state that he left AEI in 2006. Sure enough, he is no longer included on the AEI's list of scholars and fellows. The person who made the edit was anonymous, but the IP...
Posted on April 10, 2006 11:28 PM • 4 Comments
In the comments to Lott's post where he failed to notice that the study on guns and road rage reported a multi-variate regression in table 1, someone asked him about my post pointing out his mistake. Lott's response: I haven't...
Posted on February 7, 2006 10:35 AM • 37 Comments
New Scientist reports: A survey of 2400 drivers carried out by David Hemenway and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that motorists who carry guns in their cars are far more likely to indulge in road...
Posted on February 5, 2006 11:40 AM • 10 Comments
Kevin Drum is is dismayed that theNew York Times has published an op-ed by John Lott: I note that the New York Times has published a piece by John Lott today and I just have to ask: what is Lott...
Posted on January 25, 2006 12:16 PM • 3 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
