David Kaun, who is Professor of Economics at University of California Santa Cruz has an article over at BuzzFlash discussing Lott's More Guns, Less Crime.
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Last December I examined a posting by John Ray who dismissed ozone depletion as a "Greenie scare" using facts he seemed to have just made up by himself. Now he's back, attacking gun control. This time he's not using facts that he made up---he's using facts that Lott made up. He quotes…
Kevin Drum has an excellent summary of Lott's cheating with his models and his attempt at a coverup. He concludes that Lott should be fired forthwith. Niraj agrees, as Tom Spencer.
Atrios says that Lott's work on the Florida election is even more dishonest than his "More Guns…
This is an annotated list of John Lott's on line reviews at Amazon
and at Barnes and Noble.
Most of his reviews were posted anonymously or under a false name, and he used this anonymity to post many five-star reviews of his own books and to pan rival books.
When you post a review at…
You may recall how Alex Robson demonstrated his ignorance of basic statistics and of climate research. Now he has written an op-ed in Sydney's Daily Telegraph where he claims that there is no research at all that contradicts John Lott:
Laws for the concealed carrying of guns are present in some…