Discredited Professor John Kindt Continues Rant Against Gambling

John Kindt and James Dobson continue to rail against gambling, while even those on their side of the issue dismiss them as demagogues and fanatics.

Despite having been exposed as a fanatic without scientific backing, Illinois professor John Kindt continues to rail on a radical religious site against gambling. Kindt and his forum seem to be the only parties still crediting each other's pronouncements, so naturally he is published there slurring an impartial commission studying gambling in New Hampshire.

Citizenlink, the artfully titled website of the even more inaptly named Focus on the Family, discusses New Hampshire Governor John Lynch's decision to name a commission to study gaming's possible effects on the state with all its usual objectivity.

"Family advocates have no doubt what that study will find, if the commission is honest," says the site.

"As usual, the radical evangelicals already know what the results should be. If a test doesn't give the response they expect, it must be dishonest," points out OCA senior gaming analyst Sherman Bradley.

Kindt, one of a few speakers trotted forth by the far right church group as a supposed scholar, is equally biased. He notes conclusions drawn by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission of 1999, a body composed of political rather than scientific appointees whose conclusions have been debunked by thousands of peer-reviewed studies in the decade since.

"If this is a straightforward commission, it should reach similar conclusions," says Kindt, displaying the lack of scientific detachment that has ruined his name on both sides of the sober gambling discussion.

"Interesting that they keep referring to a study done by political appointees, including James Dobson, the preacher running Focus," notes Bradley. "Additionally, that survey is over ten years old, done in the infancy of online gambling and the ability to research it. Amazing they haven't found any work since then to corroborate their peculiar beliefs."