NY Post Prints Disgraced Professor's Online Gambling Screed

Some mainstream news outlets haven't discovered that Professor John Kindt is a tainted source for scientific study of online gambling, leading to the publication of a brand new York Post story stuffed with inaccuracies.

Professor John Kindt was 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 within the The big apple Post, because the paper was apparently ignorant of the tattered reputation of the Illinois academic.

Kindt wrote a commentary saying that giving US citizens the liberty to make a choice whether to gamble on the net would create an economic crisis worse than the subprime mortgage meltdown, an absurd conclusion in keeping with OCA gaming analyst Sherman Bradley. Kindt used familiar lies, stating that online gambling is cited by gaming experts "...BECAUSE THE "crack cocaine" for addicting new gamblers," ignoring findings from sources world wide including Harvard Medical School and the federal government of South Africa that Internet gaming poses only the mildest threat of addiction.

Kindt cites the infamous study conducted because 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 Take care of the Family. Joined in an alliance of convenience on this charade to slander online gambling were the highest executives of Las Vegas casino interests, on the time dead set against allowing Internet competition.

But Kindt's documented personal history reveals him for the demagogue he's. His studies leading to writings that decried Internet gambling were found to be "tainted by subjectivity," in line with Dr. Jon Griffin of the Drake Law Review. Peer review of Kimndt's economic research into online gambling found Kindt's work "doesn't comply with the conventions of scholarship," and said the study "depends upon various rhetorical devices common to advertising, public relations, editorializing, and ideological discourse."

Kindt's religious ties to concentrate on the Family have led him to disregard sober and objective findings at the safety of online gambling, findings acknowledged by experts starting from Keith Whyte of the National Council on Problem Gambling to Dr. Howard Shaffer of Harvard Medical. The sorrowful thing is that national publications just like the Post fail to correctly check Kindt's history before lending him creedence by printing his fallacies.

Published on May 18, 2010 by JoshuaMcCarthy

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