[m1911]

Lott has admitted to signing on to web chats to defend himself using the pseudonym "Mary Rosh". He also wrote himself a 5-star review on Amazon using that name. He was caught when someone noticed that e-mail from Lott had the same originating IP address as the messages from "Mary". Stupid. Vain.

[TheDon]

LOL! I thought that was standard operation for all authors! ;)

[monkeyshine]

Dear John,

Next time, try this:

http://www.anonymizer.com/

[LS]

This is ridiculous. If he made up a number, he should admit it; and if it came from someone else that he didn't check out, he should admit that. His original study is UNSCATHED, so I can't imagine why he would do this. In fact, the most recent paper I read from him had to do with the impact of voting rights of women on the size of the Fed. Gov.---nothing whatsoever to do with guns. I don't know why he would jeapordize previously stellar research with such dumb stuff.