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tlambert | January 30, 2003Meanwhile, over in talk.politics.guns some folks are in denial about Mary Rosh. "The confession must be a forgery!" they said, prompting this exchange:
Clayton Cramer:
I asked Dr. Lott about it the other night, and he confirmed it. He also realizes now that using a pseudonym was probably not very wise.
Morton Davis:
Clayton, clarify please: Was Mary Rosh really John Lott?
gzuckier:
In tonight's episode of Star Trek, the evil gungrabbers from planet Liberal Democrat face the coldly brilliant intellect of the merciless Mortbot; at the last second, their captain saves them when he presents the…
tlambert | January 30, 2003A couple of interesting things about the Mary Rosh postings. First, in her book review Mary Rosh refers to "Professor Lott". At that time he was a John M. Olin Fellow at Chicago and certainly not a professor. In another post she claims that he was a chaired professor at Wharton. You can check Lott's resume and see that he was an assistant professor at Wharton and did not hold a chair.
skippy also has a few comments.
tlambert | January 24, 2003And, from the surely-it-can't-get-any-weirder department: After John Lott made people promise not to reveal the questions in his new survey, Mary Rosh posted the questions from the new survey to Usenet. I'm imagining it went something like this:
Lott:
Nasty tricksy bloggers. We hates them, we hates them all.
Rosh:
No, some bloggers are nice. It's Lindgren we hates. He hurts us with his cruel report.
Lott:
I'll show them with my Precious survey questions. Keep them secret, we can escape, even from Lambert, eh? Grow strong, eat fish every day.
Rosh:
No, we should post survey questions…
tlambert | January 24, 2003Bloggers just can't get enough of Mary Rosh. We have Andrew Conway, Tim Dunlop and Jane Finch. G. Beato even has a picture of Mary.
tlambert | January 24, 2003Tom Spencer comments on Glenn Reynolds curious reluctance to mention Mary Rosh, apparently because it is not "actual news". Well, actual people have changed their minds about Lott because of his Mary Rosh deception and the associated lying. One of them is John Quiggin. Yesterday I said that Julian's revelations had caused him to change his mind. Actually it was just the Mary Rosh thing. My error.
tlambert | January 23, 2003Kevin Drum suggests that the large scale of the Lott/Rosh deception suggests that Lott maybe could have carried off a conspiracy with this witness. Sorry, but I still don't buy it. Lott's a liar, but he's a clumsy one. He could have saved himself most of the embarrassment of this Mary Rosh affair, if he had lied and had "Mary" admit to being Lott's wife. Kevin also comments on Lott's fishy statistics.
Tom Spencer also doesn't think Lott is off the hook and seems rather unimpressed by the silence of Clayton Cramer and Glenn Reynolds. Over in the…
tlambert | January 22, 2003Oh, and in amusing side note, Julian Sanchez uncovered evidence that determined Lott defender Mary Rosh is actually John Lott, and Lott actually confessed. Atrios, Roger Ailes, Kevin Drum and Tom Spencer also seem amused. I've had some discussions with "Mary" on Usenet. Her argument style is that if the facts disagree with Lott, then so much the worse for the facts. You can see an example here. You can read her Amazon review of More Guns, Less Crime here. And check this posting out, where "Mary" defends John from a criticism of his 98% brandishing number and rips into…
tlambert | January 21, 2003If you don't know who Mary Rosh is, you might want to read "The Mystery of Mary Rosh". Also of interest might be the blog post that unmasked Mary, and the latest Mary Rosh news.
[Editor's note: Most of these postings were made to Usenet. Some were made to comment sections on blogs, two are comments on www.freerepublic.com and one is a review posted to Amazon.com. I collected them here for easy reference. ]
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Mary Rosh:
SAVE YOUR LIFE, READ THIS BOOK -- GREAT BUY!!!! Reviewer: maryrosh (see more about me) from Philadelphia If you want to learn about what can stop crime or if you…