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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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
Category: safest-means
Lott has on op-ed on gun carrying by professional athletes. As usual, he gets his facts about guns and crime wrong. Lott claims that NCVS data shows that guns are the safest means of self-protection: Take robbery or assault....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: safest-means
A 1998 Lott op-ed called "The Cold, Hard Facts About Guns" has been getting some blogspace attention, with links from Margi Lowry, Joshua Claybourn and pecksnif. pecksnif, apparently unaware of Mary Rosh, even asserts: unlike Michael A. Bellesiles, who also...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: safest-means
As well as making the highly misleading claim that women are 2.5 times as likely to be injured if they offer no resistance than resisting with a gun as I discussed yesterday, in The Bias Against Guns Lott claims (page...
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Category: safest-means
So, apart from pretending to be one, what expertise does Lott have on women and gun issues? Well, he wrote this NRO article on women and guns. It was widely linked by bloggers, who felt that the key statistic was...
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