How pathological is the gun industry's favorite pseudoscientst?
Earlier this year, the demented dimwit was busily tryinng to "prove" that Iraq was a haven of safety ofor its citizens because pretty much everyone had a gun (even though that was no hindrance at all to Saddam seizing power and behaving like a brutal dictator).
In the course of his idiotic labors, he has accused the US Army of murdering children..
"Because he wants to discount the huge number of violent deaths in Baghdad, Lott is actually arguing that US soldiers gunned down an eight year-old girl and the military lied about it. Now clearly the American Enterprise Institute has no objection to Lott’s lying and fabricated research, but this is something that might get him into trouble.
This whole episode gives us more insight into Lott’s pathology. In the survey affair, all he had to do was admit to making a mistake in citing the wrong brandishing number, but rather than admit to the error he invented a survey; and then had to actually conduct a survey to try to bolster his story and then had to fabricate the results of the real survey to make them agree with the invented survey. Here, rather than admit to making a mistake about the Baghdad murder rate (if you you’ve forgotten what this was originally about, Lott claimed that all the guns the Iraqis had were making them safer), Lott has now effectively accused the US army of gunning down an eight year-old Iraqi girl. He’s pathological. "
http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2003/11