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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
March 31, 2004
Category: links
A couple of weeks ago Xrlq wrote about me: He's the Australian blogger who aspires to do to John Lott what Clayton Cramer did to Michael Bellesiles. Unfortunately, he doesn't do a very good job; while Cramer uncovered overwhelming...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2004
Category: UK
I wrote earlier about the Tony Martin case. Martin shot a fleeing burglar in the back and left him to die. He was convicted of murder (reduced to manslaughter on appeal). Pro-gunners such as John Lott, Glenn Reynolds and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:00 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: creationism
The Panda's Thumb is an excellent new blog devoted to defending the integrity of science against attacks from creationists. I put it straight into my blog roll. Mark Perakh has a post where he tells a story that should...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:45 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2004
Category: misc
The Australian published a letter to the editor the day after Lott's piece on laser pointers: John Lott (Opinion, 24/3) claims an Australian academic with a laser pointer would cause panic. I'm an Australian academic and when I use...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2004
Category: misc
Lott has an opinion piece on page 15 of today's Australian. Lott writes: Americans may feel safe when an academic addresses a conference using a laser pointer. In the hands of an Australian, however, there is understandable fear that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:31 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2004
When I was looking in the Philip Morris Documents Archive for information on their astroturf operations, I noticed some familiar names: The American Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute and the Cato Institute. All have been involved in employing and/or...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
Via David Bernstein I learn that the finalists for the Lysander Spooner award are: James Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny;John Lott, Bias Against Guns;Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment; and[his] own, You Can't Say That! My congratulations to all the finalists. To...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2004
Category: links
I have posted some of my emails to the firearmsreg mailing list from September and October 2002. This shows some of the initial discussion of Lott's mysterious survey. Read them here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:06 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2004
Category: misc
Dan from Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics has a problem: I'm working in a fairly esoteric field in which there are very few existing academic papers (because it's a highly politically charged topic, I've decided not to discuss it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:13 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 10, 2004
Category: misc
Via Randy Barnett we learn that Lott's Bias Against Guns has been nominated for a Spooner award for the best book on liberty published in 2003. On the voting page they state: only one vote per email address will...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2004
Category: surveys
Seems that bloggers have a strong urge to post their scores for Bryan Caplan's Libertarian Purity Test. So here's a spot where you can post your score and find blogs with similar (or different) scores....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:03 PM • 21 Comments • 18 TrackBacks
March 6, 2004
Category: Global Warming
Last month I wrote about how junkscience.com and The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition were fronts set up by tobacco companies to oppose regulatioon of smoking. Chris Mooney published a very interesting article in the Washington Post on the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:46 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astroturf
Andrew Wakefield published a study linking immunization injections with autism. The Lancet now says that it should never have been published because of a "fatal conflict of interest". At the time Wakefield was being paid to collect evidence to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:03 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 4, 2004
Category: Australia
Say Uncle suggests that I am "anti-gun" and implies that I "favor more gun control in the US". I am not "anti-gun". Here is a picture of me (on left) with a gun. Unless you think that Lott is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:57 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 1, 2004
Category: misc
Glenn Reynolds writes: Here's another in a steady stream of reports along these lines: 76 million people own a gun in this country. And now more than ever, the number of women who are buying and learning to fire...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:31 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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