Atrios has a disturbing report on David Gross. He is an extremely active pro-gun activist and was involved in a dirty trick that stole the name of a pro-control organization. Ouch. Well, I may start getting many more emails from Nigeria, but I'm still inclined to believe him. However, I imagine that lots of other people won't, so we can't consider the question of whether Lott did a survey to be closed. We really need one of his student surveyors to come forward. The Washington Times whitewash may well have hurt Lott, by discouraging people from coming forward.
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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):