Lott vs the Stanford Law Review

I asked Ben Horwich, the president of volume 55 of the Stanford Law Review to comment on Lott's latest complaints<.phpa>. He writes:

If you compare the Plassmann and Whitley statement with the one from the Stanford Law Review, there do not seem to be any really important changes---about the only thing is the Stanford Law Review editors do not accept Plassmann and Whitley's charge the editors "violated an agreement". I think the editors were quite right to reject the charge. The minor editorial correction that they made is hardly a substantive change.

It is ironic that Lott piously complains that

I don't think that it looks very good for two senior academics to lash out at young people like this, especially when the attacks on them are unjustified.

while he repeatedly accuses the law students who edit the Stanford Law Review of breaking promises and lying (when they deny they were pressured by Donohue).

He also writes:

Florenz and Whitley are being painted as being so desperate for a publication that they would put their names on a flawed paper.

However, Plassmann and Whitley have put their names on a flawed paper. As Ayres and Donohue showed, the paper contains table after table and graph after graph based on miscoded data. And, instead of correcting the problem, or even admitting that it exists, they have issued a statement about the relatively trivial matter of Lott's dispute with the Stanford Law Review,

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