Andrew Chamberlain observes "Once again, economist John Lott has been busted for lying."
Julian Sanchez writes about Lott: "It's long past time for people who care about gun rights to cut this albatross from our necks."
William Quick says that "it doesn't look good for Lott at the moment", but asks for a simple explanation. I recommend Kevin Drum's summary.
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The Chicago Tribune reports:
Last year an anonymous person from the American Enterprise Institute
repeatedly tried and failed to remove all
criticism of Lott from his
wikipedia page. He
At the The High Road there was some discussion of the cherry picked Lott article I discussed here. One poster, "agricola", criticized Lott, linking to my blog.
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):