Paul Cella writes about Lott:
My amateur and incomplete (and, if you insist, predisposed) sense is that Mr. Lott has roundly disarmed his often-strident critics with the scrupulousness of his research.
Fortunately, Wes Little sorts him out in comments and Cella ends up conceding:
Alright, Wes: you win. I had altogether forgotten about Lott's shadiness when I posted the link. If I had remembered the scandal, I surely would have looked for someone else to adduce on guns. It is also unfortunate that the reviewer I link to failed to mention it.
Jesse Taylor writes:
does it ever strike anyone else that Glenn's style of covering dishonest conservatives is akin to the way that the mainstream media tends to cover conservative screw-ups?
"A person levied a charge against a conservative, and proves it. Offering no proof, the conservative's defenders said this was '(some synonym for "bad attack")' from his partisan enemies. I'll wait until a conservative makes a criticism of the conservative before I hop on board, if I ever bring it up again, unless it's something that I can safely criticize now without tiptoeing around it."
More like this
First, a recap and a time line on the Kopel/Lott/Reynolds attacks on Steve Levitt:
16 Aug 2001
Glenn Reynolds claims that the NAS panel is "stacked" with "ardent supporters of gun control", especially Levitt.
29 Aug 2001
Dave Kopel and Glenn Reynolds write an article in National Review Online…
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…
If you use a pseudonym to post a five-star review of your book: More Guns, Less Crime by John LottImportant accurate info that Opponents constantly distort, November 8, 2001 Reviewer: Economist123 - See all my reviews This is by far the most comprehensive study ever done on guns. It provides…
When I looked at the reviews of More Guns, Less Crime I wasn't sure that this review was written by Lott: If you are interested in the facts, read this book, July 10, 2000 Reviewer: A reader from Miami, Florida A couple of friends of mine have been nagging me to read this book for a couple of…