Professor John Kindt, a researcher known in the online casino industry as a researcher who ignores his scientific background to slander online casino gambling. This week, Kindt found a new source to distribute his lies and misleading statements, the New York Post. Probably the newspaper was unaware of the damaged reputation of the professor.

Kindt wrote an article in which he says that when American citizens are give the freedom to choose to gamble on the Internet, this would cause an economic crisis that is worse than the mortgage crisis, an absurd conclusion. Kindt used the well known lies like that online casino gambling is seen as a crack for new gamblers by casino gambling experts. This ignores the findings of studies around the world, including studies by the Harvard Medical School and the Government of South Africa showing Internet casino gambling poses only the smallest threat of addiction.

Kindt cites the infamous 1999 study by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, this was a fraudulent survey that had prejudices representatives in her panel like James Dobson of the religious fundamentalist group Focus on the Family. Top executives from Las Vegas casino interests at that time strongly opposed allowing internet competition had formed an alliance in this charade to slander online gambling.

But the personal history of John Kindt shows what a demagogue he is. His studies that decry internet casino gambling appeared to be ‘affected by subjectivity’. The peer review of the economic research of Kindt into online gambling found that Kindt’s work “does not comply with the rules of scholarship,” and reported that the study “is based on a series of rhetorical devices that are used in advertising, PR, and ideological context. ” Thus the review.

The religious ties of Kindt with Focus on the Family have made him ignore sober and objective findings on the security of online gambling, findings that are confirmed by experts, ranging from Keith Whyte of the National Council on Problem Gambling to Dr. Howard Shaffer of the Harvard Medical School. The sad thing is that national publications like the Post did not properly check the history of Kindt before providing him credibility by publishing his article.