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To: TimF who wrote (68719)	4/27/2018 4:12:24 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 360649

What is gun ownership in the upper two plots?

To: TimF who wrote (68719)	4/27/2018 5:46:45 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 360649

Hm. Biased much? But Lott’s recent successes belie a far more shadowy past. A little over a decade ago, he was disgraced and his career was in tatters. Not only was Lott’s assertion that more guns leads to more safety formally repudiated by a National Research Council panel, but he had also been caught pushing studies with severe statistical errors on numerous occasions. An investigation uncovered that he had almost certainly fabricated an entire survey on defensive gun use. And a blogger revealedthat Mary Rosh, an online commentator claiming to be a former student of Lott’s who would frequently post about how amazing he was, was in fact John Lott himself. He was all but excommunicated from academia.