Brian Linse responds to William Sjostrom's attempt to defend Lott.
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Hunt Stilwell asks:
since the gun lobby's statistical claims have been debunked so thoroughly and so often, why do they continue to use them, and why do people continue to buy them?
Brian Linse thinks there has been some progress, since not many progun bloggers linked to Lott's piece, whereas
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David Glenn's article on academic blogging in the Chronicle of Higher Education mentions the role of blogs in the investigation of Lott's conduct.
William Sjostrom writes "Lott always releases his data." But Lott has not released the data for his 1997 survey.
Brian Linse comments on Mark Kleiman's post and suggests that people should write to the University of Chicago Press and ask them to investigate Lott. Tom Spencer also comments on Kleiman's post, as do Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias.
Lott has just published an op-ed in the Minneapolis Star…
William Sjostrom gamely defends Lott against the charge that he anonymously accused Levitt of being "rabidly antigun".