Why did they lose this funding? They were giving money to ER doctors like Author Kellermann who make up junk study to push his pet gun control cause. We paid tax dollars for something that was supposed to be the basis of public policy. We got:
ER doctors and public health types with no training in the scientific method constructing biased studies
Who did not submit them to peer review or try to get them published in criminology journals. Kellermann specifically refused to give his raw data or notes to other researchers for review when asked for years. When he did, it was complete junk and invalid.
To quote Lawrance Southwick at the 1994 American Society of Criminology (where the subject was a topic of discussion):
"Generally the level of analysis done on each side is of a low quality. The papers published in the medical literature (which are uniformly anti-gun) are particularly poor science."
Basically, he said that we were paying for studies that were about as scientific as NRA propaganda.
Meanwhile, NIJ has been doing said studies during this "ban" and there have not been any issues. Of course, the results that real criminologists that publish these studies in peer review criminology journals don't get quoted by Brady or Bloomberg.
I propose for CDC to receive such funding, researchers must meet the following conditions:
--Must be done by credentialed scholars in the area being studied. No more ER doctors making a study to fit a pre determined conclusion
--The entire study, including raw data, must be made public for peer review and critique.
--Critiques and comments must also be made public, and counter studies must receive equal funding and same conditions apply.
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