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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://cloggie.org/wissewords2/">Wis[s]e Words</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553im_/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/img/unswcse150.png" width="150" height="150" alt="1st for computer science"/></a> </div> <div class="blogMain"> <h2 class="archiveTitle">kates:</h2>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102710"> <h2><a id="a102710" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2002/08/kates-00007.php">Re: History News Network Article by Kates</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>Paul Blackman writes: I'm not sure Kates actually prevents anyone from learning anything. He presents something with a clear bias, but he no more prevents anything than does Tim's commentary. Kates claims that he is trying "to place Malcolm's contribution...</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2002/08/kates-00007.php#more">Read on »</a></p> <p class="entryMeta"> Posted by <a href="">Tim Lambert</a> at 12:58 AM • • </p> </div>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102709"> <h2><a id="a102709" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2002/08/kates-00006.php">History News Network Article by Kates</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>My comments on this article by Don Kates. Mr Kates does readers of the History News Network a grave disservice with his article. He pretends to provide them a criminologist's perspective on the guns-crime question, but only quotes from pro-gun...</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2002/08/kates-00006.php#more">Read on »</a></p> <p class="entryMeta"> Posted by <a href="">Tim Lambert</a> at 2:19 PM • • </p> </div>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102708"> <h2><a id="a102708" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2002/07/kates-00005.php">Kates and "Overt Mendacity"</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>In the Tennessee Law Review (v61 513-596 1994) Kates et al wrote: the inventive Dr. Diane Schetky, and two equally inventive CDC writers Gordon Smith and Henry Falk in a separate article actually do provide purportedly supporting citations for the...</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2002/07/kates-00005.php#more">Read on »</a></p> <p class="entryMeta"> Posted by <a href="">Tim Lambert</a> at 11:03 AM • • </p> </div>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102664"> <h2><a id="a102664" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1997/02/kates-00004.php">False claims in Kates’ TN law review paper</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>If you just want to look at accidental death, I would note that most of the decrease in fatal gun accidents in the US occured before there was an increase in handgun ownership Table 2.1 of Kleck's "Point Blank" shows...</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1997/02/kates-00004.php#more">Read on »</a></p> <p class="entryMeta"> Posted by <a href="">Tim Lambert</a> at 10:00 AM • • </p> </div>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102630"> <h2><a id="a102630" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/03/kates-00003.php">False claims in Kates’ TN law review paper</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>Don B Kates, Jr. writes: Having been out of town on two different trips, I have not had a chance to finish my response to Mr. Lambert's latest screed to me. But I note his comment that Ed Suter has...</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/03/kates-00003.php#more">Read on »</a></p> <p class="entryMeta"> Posted by <a href="">Tim Lambert</a> at 7:11 AM • • </p> </div>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102629"> <h2><a id="a102629" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/02/kates-00002.php">False claims in Kates’ TN law review paper</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>Someone writes: TO List Supervisor, Prof. Volokh: Mendacious, Fabrication, Falsity, Untrue. These words used by Mr. Lambert to describe Mr. Kates's arguments. Is it permissible to call a list member a liar if you use a thesaurus? No. The only...</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/02/kates-00002.php#more">Read on »</a></p> <p class="entryMeta"> Posted by <a href="">Tim Lambert</a> at 9:26 PM • • </p> </div>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102628"> <h2><a id="a102628" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/02/kates-00001.php">False claims in Kates’ TN law review paper</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>[Writing to Don Kates] You asserted that handguns are involved in less than 50% of criminal firearm injuries. You dismissed my calculation that the data in your paper implied that the percentage was 90-97% as some sort of trick. Could...</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/02/kates-00001.php#more">Read on »</a></p> <p class="entryMeta"> Posted by <a href="">Tim Lambert</a> at 11:01 AM • • </p> </div>  <div class="entry" id="entry-102627"> <h2><a id="a102627" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/01/kates-00000.php">False claims in Kates’ TN law review paper</a></h2> <p class="categories">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120114185553/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/guns/kates/">kates</a></p> <p>Don B Kates, Jr. writes: In vol. 62 # 3 (1995) of the TN Law Rev, Henry Schaffer, three professors at Harvard and Columbia Medical Schools, and I have an article evaluating the medical/public health literature on firearms. 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