John Lott was Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor's guest on Friday morning to discuss a range of gun control issues from background checks to the large push by Michael Bloomberg, liberal foundations, and the federal government to fund research that will support their gun...
Problems with Public Health Research
Problems with Public Health Research: Michael Siegel, Craig Ross, and Charles King, “The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981-2010,” American Journal of Public Health
In a recent issue of the American Journal of Public Health, three researchers examine the relationship between "gun ownership" as measured by the percent of suicides committed with firearms. There is a significant literature indicating that this measure actually is...
Problems with Public Health Research: Garen J. Wintemute, “Findings from the Firearms Licensee Survey,” Journal of Urban Health
The quality of research published in medical journals on public health is abysmal. The CPRC will occasionally publish comments on this research. In this case, the full title of the paper by Garen J. Wintemute is "Support for a Comprehensive Background Check...
Newest piece at IBD: “Media Play Up Faulty Study Suggeting Link Between Guns, Death Rates”
John Lott's newest piece at Investors' Business Daily starts this way: Do fewer guns mean fewer firearm deaths? If you believe the March 6th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association of Internal Medicine, the answer is "yes." A study by Eric Fleegler...