CBS News Allows Discredited Researcher John Lott To Falsely Connect Gun Laws To Higher Murder Rates

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. I clicked on the link and read this --

Let’s say you wrote a book. In that book you flubbed essential information.

Speaking of flubbing essential information --

The link in the excerpt goes to this article at Science Blogs that starts with this line --

In his interview in the Illinois Leader Lott says:

The Illinois Leader? But the article you originally provided explicitly says, "Let’s say you wrote a book. In that book you..." The Illinois Leader is not Lott's book.

Heck, even in that second link the gotcha is hardly a gotcha. Lott said the media is biased towards gun control and didn't publish one article in favor of gun ownership. Science blogs then goes on to provide excerpts of 3 articles that aren't even entire paragraphs let alone speaking to the tenor of the articles as a whole.

All 3 links provided by Science Blogs ostensibly go to articles/commentaries from ABC News but those links cannot be found by followed.

That's as far as my credulity would allow me to venture.