Mac Diva comments on Lott's claims in his Washington Post letter. Mac doesn't believe Lott's story about the threatening phone calls that forced Lott into the Mary Rosh deception.
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I've done some more investigation in Lott's latest explanation for his Mary Rosh postings:
I originally used my own name but switched after receiving threatening and obnoxious telephone calls from other Internet posters.
The first group of Lott postings were made between 3 June…
The Washington Post has printed a letter from Lott responding to two Washington Post articles, one about his survey, and one about Mary Rosh. Lott makes several false claims in his letter:
that the Post did not print a letter from "an academic who wanted to correct a statement attributed to…
On July 12 The Columbus Dispatch published a letter from Paul van Doorn replying to an earlier letter from David Mayer that I commented on. Here is an extract (hyperlinks added by me):
Mayer claimed the research of economist John Lott establishes that "violent-crime rates fall after right-to-…
Kevin 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…