For three years, John Lott pretended to be a young woman.

Her name was Mary Rosh.

Mary Rosh often spoke sweetly of her days as a student of John's, she gave a glowing Amazon.com review of his book "More Guns, Less Crime," she criticized anyone who questioned John's research or his conclusions, and she attacked other researchers in her ardent defense of Lott's idea that more guns on the streets leads to less crime.

She was also a petite defenseless creature. We know this because John, we mean, she said:

"Do you really think that most women can out run your typical criminal?…Even if I am not wearing heels, I don’t think that there are many men that I could outrun.

"As a woman, who weighs 114 lbs, what am I supposed to do if I am confronted by a 200 lbs. man?"

Then a researcher at the conservative think tank CATO Institute discovered the truth about Mary Rosh and undressed John Lott for all the world to see.

Currently, Lott is a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

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John Lott's "research"

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The Many Adventures of John Lott, Gun "Researcher"
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John Lott has a blog. Will Mary be a guest poster?
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LA Times: Author of "Historians in Trouble" Says The U.S. District Court Should Throw Out John Lott's Lawsuit Against Authors of "Freakonomics."
The Reason? Well Frankly, Because John Lott is a Fraud.
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Lott Sues Best-Seller "Freakonomics" For Asserting Lott's Research Is
Disputed and Unverifiable

"According to Levitt's book: 'When other scholars have tried to replicate [Lott's] results, they found that right-to-carry laws simply don't bring down crime.'"
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The GOP's Loyalty Fetish
"What is remarkable about John Lott isn’t that he exists, but that despite being exposed more than once as a fraud, he continues to serve as a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and conservatives continue to cite and praise his work (and for some inexplicable reason, the Los Angeles Times continues to regularly publish Lott’s op-eds)."
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John Lott blames Affirmative Action in Atlanta Courthouse Shooting
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John Lott thinks terrorists should be able to buy .50 caliber sniper rifles
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MMFA seconds Political Animal's plea to LA Times: "Stop publishing" John Lott
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John Lott's Crush on the VPC
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Bizarre theory on guns
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John Lott's Ridiculous Quotes collected on NRALeaders.org
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John Lott CAUGHT with Second Fake Identity he uses to Attack his Critics and Speak Highly of Himself
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"In the Tank: The intellectual decline of AEI" (Where John Lott retains the title of "fellow," even while playing a "female.")
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Knockout Article Questioning John Lott's Credibility as a Legitimate Researcher
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Inequitable Penalties? The Tales of Two Gun Researchers
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Lott Fires Blanks
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John Lott Thinks Teachers Should Pack Handguns at School
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John Lott lies again. Cites nonexistent statistic on Baghdad murder rate.
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Despite Continued Attacks on U.S. Troops, Lott Thinks Iraqis Should Keep AK-47's
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Right Wing News Service Doesn't Mention Serious Questions of John Lott's Credibility
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"John and Mary and Jayson and Rick"
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About That Man John Lott Uses to "Prove" He Conducted a Phone Survey That Many Say Never Took Place. He's a Fellow Gun NUT
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"How Was Mary Rosh Undressed?"
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Scholar Invents Fan To Answer His Critics
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The Mary Rosh Blog
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Slate summarizes Lott
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This site calls John Lott a Liar

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Pro-gun conservative columnist doesn't even trust Lott
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Pro-gun Washington Times on Lott
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Who is David Gross, Who Vouched for John Lott's Disputed Phone Survey?
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Science Magazine on John Lott
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