February 14, 2003

Scholar's Most Vigorous Defender Turns Out to Be Himself, Pseudonymously

By DAVID GLENN

EVERYONE NEEDS A BEST FRIEND: "Last year I worked extremely hard," John R. Lott Jr. wrote last month in an e-mail reply to a review of his research ethics. Among other things, Mr. Lott, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, was busy completing a new book, The Bias Against Guns, due from Regnery Publishing in March. The hectic schedule had kept him from many things, he said, including keeping up on Internet debates on gun control. "I am not a

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