DispositionMatrix
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Author claims he now has science on his side, so reporters should report on firearms with the preferred bias.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hemenway-guns-20150423-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hemenway-guns-20150423-story.html
Bloomberg Star awarded for getting "Sandy Hook" into first sentence.After the Sandy Hook tragedy,...
The author, David Hemenway, teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center....reporters often called me to ask for information on firearms. They wanted to know whether strong gun laws reduced homicide rates (I said they did); and, conversely, whether permissive gun laws lowered crime rates overall (I said they did not). I discovered that in their news articles journalists would write that I said one thing while some other firearms researcher said the opposite. This “he said-she said” reporting annoyed me — because I knew that the scientific evidence was on my side.
One of the reporters I complained to said that he had covered climate change for many years. He explained that journalists were able to stop their “balanced” reporting of that issue only when objective findings indicated that the overwhelming majority of scientists thought climate change was indeed happening, and that it was caused by humans.
So I decided to determine objectively, through polling, whether there was scientific consensus on firearms. What I found won't please the National Rifle Assn.