Mark Kleiman has written a must read post covering the recent developments and concluding:
- defenders of gun rights should stop citing Lott as an authority
- the University of Chicago Press should conduct a formal enquiry into the existence of the 1997 survey
- the AEI should conduct an enquiry into Lott's professional ethics
Mark both spoke to Lott and posted a long email. Yet again, Lott does not admit to making any coding errors. In fact he comes close to denying making such errors when he writes:
Ayres and Donohue's attacks on the quality of our data are not only misleading, but it should be noted that these authors have not been equally forthcoming in sharing their own data.
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):