Lott has drafted yet another cherry-picked article where he pretends that crime in Australia is increasing despite plummeting crime rates here. Jonathan Dursi takes it apart.
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Jonathon Dursi details the spread of a bogus comparison between crime rate in US in Canada from John Lott to David Frum to Alan
Welcome to the 2004 Deltoid awards. Today we are giving out the Golden Rake Award, named in honour of Sideshow Bob and the rakes in the Simpsons Cape Feare episode:
Tim Blair links to some interesting articles in this week's Bulletin.
Where by "takes it apart", Tim means "links to the relevant Deltoid posts that had previously painstakingly debunked this batch of Lott's repetitive, discredited claims".
Still a good piece - cogent summary and a pleasure to read.