A couple of weeks ago Xrlq wrote about me:
He's the Australian blogger who aspires to do to John Lott what Clayton Cramer did to Michael Bellesiles. Unfortunately, he doesn't do a very good job; while Cramer uncovered overwhelming evidence Bellesiles's fundamental research was fabricated, the best Lambert has been able to do is to uncover a few really stupid things Lott has done on a few isolated occasions. The rest of his rebuttals consist of gratuitous attacks on Lott personally.
I felt that this was incorrect, so I remonstrated.with Xrlq in comments. After a lengthy discussion Xrlq ended up agreeing that it was wrong and had the decency to post:
Tim Lambert's 'Hat of the Day award has been revoked and conferred on me, instead, for having issued it in the first place. That will teach me to issue 'Hats to bloggers.
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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
Fumento has now made three posts on his blog and a whole pile of comments on other blogs in response to my revealing his use of a sock puppet.
Back in 2003 I reported on The Case of the File from the Future, where Lott tried to destroy some incriminating evidence, but did it so ineptly that he made things worse for himself. Well, he's done it again.
We last saw Fumento blundering around in a field of rakes. Now read on. John Fleck commented on the situation:
FYI, it's XRLQ, not XLRQ.
Oops, fixed.