You must read Mark Kleiman

Mark Kleiman has written a must read post covering the recent developments and concluding:

1. defenders of gun rights should stop citing Lott as an authority
2. the University of Chicago Press should conduct a formal enquiry into the existence of the 1997 survey
3. 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.