I should add one caution to my comments about Lott's "ten years" claim yesterday. It is possible that the reporter misunderstood and/or misquoted Lott.
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If you want to see another example of Lott's carelessness towards facts, consider this article, published a few days ago:
But, where Vernick and Hepburn said they were unable to find any attribution to the '20,000' statistic, Lott said the proof is readily available in a…
Jim Lindgren has two posts about John Lott. First, on Lott's lawsuit against Levitt he concludes:
I think that Freakonomics is misleading in its juxtaposition of different studies, a juxtaposition that might bring one to conclude that the reason that the main More Guns, Less Crime research was not…
In his email to Mark Kleiman, Lott accused Ayres and Donohue of lying:
However, the Stanford Law Review allowed Ayres and Donohue to add an addition to their piece commenting on all this. They said that:
"It is important to note that what we now refer to as the PW response has already been widely…
I've switched from hand-crafted html to using Blosxom for my blog. This lets me add some nice features like grouping postings by topic, an RSS feed, comments, search and so on.
After a couple of hundred postings about John Lott, I also feel like posting on something else for a change,…