Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review. . ‘Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and adolescents,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy saidlast week, calling the situation a “public health crisis.” It has been a favorite talking point of the...
Problems with Public Health Research
At the Washington Times: Insurrectionists and the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Report shows how out of touch left-wing academics are
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times. According to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, the threat of an armed insurrection is so pressing that we must quickly enact wide-ranging gun control measures. Its new report...
Since 2019, Congress put $75 million into gun control research
lawmakers in Washington have set aside roughly $75 million since 2019 for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.Ramsey Touchberry, "Congress pours $75M into gun research such as whether community...
UPDATED: Thoughts on the New England Journal of Medicine Letter about Gun deaths for “Children or Adolescents” being the leading cause of death
Here are the numbers for those under 20, but there are some issues with the accuracy of these numbers. UPDATE: The New England Journal of Medicine has a letter making the claim that children are more likely to die from guns than any other cause. The piece contains...
A reminder of being careful about advice from public health officials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-3PiY_CqoY Something to remember when dealing with public health people when they talk about other issues that they consider themselves experts on, such as gun control.
Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Marty Makary: The CDC ‘Sits On’ Data To Suit Their Narrative. Raising questions about trusting them on other data issues.
The CDC has had serious errors previously in their data dealing with gun control issues that the CPRC was able to get corrected only after strenuous efforts. If the CDC withholds data that goes against their initial claims, why should we trust them on other issues...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Publishes Bogus Science from RAND on gun control
In a paper titled, “Changes in firearm mortality following the implementation of state laws regulating firearm access and use,” RAND Corporation staffers have published a paper examining child access prevention (CAP), right-to-carry (RTC), and stand your ground (SYG)...
Wells Fargo will spend $10 million on gun violence “research”
In order to buy protection from gun control groups, Wells Fargo has promised to give more than $10 million to support their research agenda. Trisha Schultz, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, said in a statement that the bank planned to invest more than $10 million over three...
At Townhall.com: House Panel Allots $50M to Study Gun Violence
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Townhall.com discusses the House Appropriations Committee Allotting $50 million for public health research on guns. Lott's piece begins this way: One of the most common attacks on the National Rifle Association is that it supposedly...
At Fox News: Dems want $50 million for biased research to attack gun ownership
Dr. John Lott appeared yesterday before the House Appropriations Committee to testify about the need for the CDC to fund research on gun ownership. He has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: Democrats in the U.S. House are likely to approve spending $50...
Notes on the Harvard Injury Control Research Center page on Homicide
People often link to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center page on Homicide as evidence to prove that gun ownership is a negative. If guns are on a net negative on safety, how come every single place that has banned guns (all guns or all handguns) has seen an...
Problems with Siegel et al, American Journal of Public Health, “Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States”
Siegel, Xuan, Ross, Galea, Kalesan, Fleegler, and Goss have a paper in the American Journal of Public Health that claims to be the first paper to find a statistically significant increase in homicides from the passage of right-to-carry laws. The bottom line is that...