Has Lott admitted these are his reviews? Did Kleck tell you that he has asked that these reviews be removed from Amazon?
Rich
Subj: Sockfight
Date: 2/19/2004 7:35:11 PM Eastern Standard Time
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I spotted a third review by Lott of Kleck's "Targetting Guns":
Interesting reference book, though somewhat dry, July 10, 2000
Reviewer: sherwinrl from Miami, Florida
Kleck has but together quite a useful overview of the research on
guns. I liked the detailed discussions of the existing literature,
and, as a nonacademic, I did not find it too difficult to
read. Unlike the other reviewers who are picking a fit between
Kleck and Lott, I thought that both were valuable. They both have
their strengths. Kleck's is to use survey data, while Lott's is to
examine the impact of gun ownership and gun laws on crime
rates. Both books go into the other's territory (as they should),
but their relative strengths are clear.
On the survey data, I wish that Kleck would have dealt more with
the survey data about offensive gun use. I also wish that he could
explain why his survey data does not imply a net benefit from
using guns.
My only real complaint on the quality of the writing is that too
much of the book is such and such shows this and such and such
shows that and .... This is fine if the book is to serve as a
reference source. It is not too thrilling to have to read through.
Look who supposedly wrote it: sherwinrl. That would be Sherwin R Lott,
John Lott's fourth son, the Sh in MaRy RoSh and no more than eight
when this review was posted. Lott has also posted a review under the name
maximcl, his oldest child. Cute trick he has, posting under his
children's names.
And notice how in this review he writes "Unlike the other reviewers
who are picking a fit between Kleck and Lott, I thought that both were
valuable." He's referring to two previous reviews, one by "A reader
from Philadelphia" and one by "A reader from Madison Wisconsin". Only
they were two more of Lott's sock puppets. We're entering higher-order
sockpuppetry when you have your socks arguing with each other.
Gary Kleck has asked Amazon to delete Lott's phony reviews of his
books, so we'll see what happens next.
--
Tim
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