Tapsearch Com EditorMore on The Joyce Foundation
January 15th 2007 22:48
Instapundit has a new blurb about the Harvard study I blogged about yesterday. It links to yet more details about the funding group, The Joyce Foundation, and its anti-gun bias.
The post makes the point that, if the NRA funded such research, all hell would break loose.
As I wrote in an e-mail to Instapundit:
"The notion has a historical precedent.
"John Lott's more guns/less crime study was paid for with a grant he earned -- and people attacked him because one of the funders (the John M. Olin Foundation) was loosely linked to a gun manufacturer (the Olin Corporation, which makes ammunition). The university faculty, not the foundation or the corporation, chose Lott to receive the grant. And as Reason pointed out, the Olin Foundation is to the gun industry as the Ford Foundation is to auto manufacturers."
The post makes the point that, if the NRA funded such research, all hell would break loose.
As I wrote in an e-mail to Instapundit:
"The notion has a historical precedent.
"John Lott's more guns/less crime study was paid for with a grant he earned -- and people attacked him because one of the funders (the John M. Olin Foundation) was loosely linked to a gun manufacturer (the Olin Corporation, which makes ammunition). The university faculty, not the foundation or the corporation, chose Lott to receive the grant. And as Reason pointed out, the Olin Foundation is to the gun industry as the Ford Foundation is to auto manufacturers."
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