Tom Spencer mentions the Washington Post's criticism of Lott. ArchPundit finds Lott's criticism (in this interview)of poorly done gun control research ironic. Arie discovers the John Lott story.
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Last year blogger Xrlq
href="http://xrlq.com/2004/03/17/hat-of-the-day-stim-lamberts-xrlq/"
rel="nofollow">dismissed my criticism of
Lott as "paranoid rantings" and
"gratuitous attacks on Lott personally", calling me "Dim", "Timwit",
"Timbecile", "a jerk" and "Dim Lambert".
This year I noted…
Everyone has something about Lott's latest untruth that I mentioned yesterday. Mark Kleiman says
Isn't there anyone in the management of the American Enterprise Institute with a modicum of institutional self-respect?
Brad Delong replies:
If they had any institutional self-respect,…
ArchPundit continues to ponder on Lott's amateurish surveys. One further point you might like to consider: If the surveyors in Lott's 2002 survey were aware that it was vital for Lott to reproduce his low firing rate result, then that introduces a strong source of interviewer…
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…