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NY Post Prints Disgraced Professor's Online Gambling Screed Some mainstream news outlets have not discovered that Professor John Kindt is a tainted source for scientific study of online gambling, resulting in the publication of a New York Post story filled with inaccuracies.
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Professor John Kindt has been demonstrated by Online Casino Advisory and others to have abandoned his scientific detachment in his eagerness to besmirch online gambling. But this week, Kindt found a new, national sourrce that published his lies and misleading statements in the New York Post, as the paper was apparently unaware of the tattered reputation of the Illinois academic.
Kindt wrote a commentary saying that giving US citizens the freedom to choose whether to gamble on the Internet would create an economic crisis worse than the subprime mortgage meltdown, an absurd conclusion according to OCA gaming analyst Sherman Bradley. Kindt used familiar lies, stating that online gambling is referred to by gaming experts "...as the "crack cocaine" for addicting new gamblers," ignoring findings from sources around the globe including Harvard Medical School and the government of South Africa that Internet gaming poses only the mildest threat of addiction.
Kindt cites the infamous study conducted as the 1999 US National Gambling Impact Study Commission, a rigged survey which had on its panel such prejudiced representatives as James Dobson of the religious fundamentalist Focus on the Family. Joined in an alliance of convenience in this charade to slander online gambling were the top executives of Las Vegas casino interests, at the time dead set against allowing Internet competition.
But Kindt's documented personal history reveals him for the demagogue he is. His studies resulting in writings that decried Internet gambling were found to be "tainted by subjectivity," according to Dr. Jon Griffin of the Drake Law Review. Peer review of Kimndt's economic research into online gambling found Kindt's work "does not conform to the conventions of scholarship," and said the study "relies on a range of rhetorical devices common to advertising, public relations, editorializing, and ideological discourse."
Kindt's religious ties to Focus on the Family have led him to ignore sober and objective findings on the safety of online gambling, findings acknowledged by experts ranging from Keith Whyte of the National Council on Problem Gambling to Dr. Howard Shaffer of Harvard Medical. The sad thing is that national publications like the Post fail to properly check Kindt's history before lending him creedence by printing his fallacies.
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Recent CommentsPosted by: MelissaWhen: 10/16/2010 01:43:07 PM ESTThank you so much for publishing this commentary. i cannot agree with you more. I was so angry when I read that piece of crap propaganda I wrote into the Post with a well thought out and articulate( I used to cherish the Post before this!) Op Ed piece that was completely ignored. I tried to post it to the article as well but that got rejected. (i even left out the inappropriate language). Well done on this article! Featured US Casino
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