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tlambert | May 14, 2003Tom Spencer thinks that Reynolds is "making wild evidence-free claims about the nature of other scholarship in the field just to distract you from the trouble his man Lott is in." It is certainly odd that Reynolds doesn't provide any evidence that the research he criticizes is "utter bilge" while insisting that criticism of Lott is"best done by those who ... have done actual work, and have actual evidence relevant to the matter at hand.
tlambert | April 26, 2003Kevin Drum provides a nice summary of Friday's long posting about weighting.
Cosma Shalizi tells us that his wife's boss is on the NAS Panel on firearms. Right now I'm thinking of a line of clothing emblazoned with: "I got smeared by Glenn Reynolds and all I got was this lousy t shirt". Someone who got more than that is Steve Levitt, who has just been awarded the John Bates Clark medal.
tlambert | April 8, 2003John Quiggin has written an article for the Australian Financial Review examining the role weblogs played in the John and Trent Lott affairs. Jim Henley has some interesting comments on gun issues including his assessment of Lott.
tlambert | April 7, 2003John Quiggin gives some more examples of folks behaving like the Heartland Institute and the Independence Institute and covering up their mistakes rather than acknowledging them.
tlambert | April 3, 2003Noam Alaska doesn't think much of Lott's new book.
Mac Diva explains what she thinks is wrong with Lott's research.
tlambert | March 31, 2003Harvard's David Hemenway has a devastating review of Lott's new book, The Bias against Guns. Apparently Lott claims that the "impact from closing the gun show 'loophole'" was a reduction of 102% in Indiana's auto theft rate, which would have meant that thieves were returning previously stolen cars.
tlambert | March 24, 2003Guy Cabot comments on how Lott keeps trying to make it look like the question was whether he had a disk crash or not. Jo Fish isn't impressed either. Tom Spencer suggests that the American Enterprise Institute is looking for a way to let Lott go. skippy thinks Lott should "stop lying".
Postwatch also comments on Lott's letter. He doesn't "understand why the Post wouldn't allow someone to correct a blatant error". The explanation is simple---Lott invented the "blatant error".
tlambert | March 22, 2003Laura Billings has a article in the St Paul Pioneer Press where she argues that Lott has "been largely discredited as a reliable source of information on gun policy". In the Albuquerque Alibi Steven Robert Allen lambasts both Lott and Bellesiles as frauds.
tlambert | February 25, 2003Henry Farrell observes that while Joyce Lee Malcolm's Reason article about Bellesiles describes several cases of misconduct other than Bellesiles, it does not mention Lott. However, this article is from the print edition, so it is likely to have been written before the Lott affair became public.
Dick Dahl has a story about the new book Evaluating Gun Policy. Meanwhile, Handgun-Free America are going to protest against Lott at the AEI Annual Dinner.
tlambert | February 23, 2003Archpundit and Tom Spencer comment on Lott's fudged figure.
Costa Tsiokas discusses Lott's integrity.
tlambert | February 22, 2003Atrios and Tom Spencer link to the Rob Levine article I mentioned a few days ago. Tom also writes: "Many are saying that it's probably only a matter of time before [Lott] loses his position at the American Enterprise Institute."
tlambert | February 19, 2003Rob Levine has a very critical article on Lott at citypages.com.
Here is the story behind the removal of Rosh's review of More Guns, Less Crime from Amazon.
tlambert | February 17, 2003General Christian has a few, slightly sarcastic, comments about John and Mary.
tlambert | February 14, 2003Roger Ailes makes an good point---now that Lott's mystery survey is getting wide publicity, why haven't any of the students who allegedly did the interviews come forward?
Archpundit points to a Valentine poem in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Kieran Healy has a Valentine poem too.
tlambert | February 8, 2003Kevin Drum observes that Mary Rosh has become a TV star.
Don Watkins thinks Lott should be ashamed of himself. Steve also is not impressed.
tlambert | February 7, 2003Another link I missed: TBOGG criticizes Glenn Reynolds' attempts to downplay the Lott affair.