And, from the surely-it-can't-get-any-weirder department: After John Lott made people promise not to reveal the questions in his new survey, Mary Rosh posted the questions from the new survey to Usenet. I'm imagining it went something like this:
- Lott:
- Nasty tricksy bloggers. We hates them, we hates them all.
- Rosh:
- No, some bloggers are nice. It's Lindgren we hates. He hurts us with his cruel report.
- Lott:
- I'll show them with my Precious survey questions. Keep them secret, we can escape, even from Lambert, eh? Grow strong, eat fish every day.
- Rosh:
- No, we should post survey questions. Bloggers see we be good, good as fish.
- Lott:
- But He will see, He will know, must keep Precious secret!
- Rosh:
- [posts survey questions]
- Lott:
- Nooo! My Precious!!
More like this
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):