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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
April 28, 2004
Category: McKitrick
Chris Mooney notes that McKitrick defended Inhofe's claim that "manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated" I'm not the only one who has found problems with McKitrick's writings on climate. Robert Grumbine has some comments on another...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:34 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: McKitrick
The graph above, which Iain Murray claimed showed that "The fact that the ten hottest years happened since 1991 may well be an artifact of the collapse in the number of weather monitoring stations contributing to the global temperature...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:24 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: McKitrick
[This correspondence started with an email from McKitrick commenting on this post. I've edited it to remove most of the quoted text from previous emails. Further discussion is here.]...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2004
Category: personal
Mrs M. Ingram Old Dubbo Dubbo N.S.W. Australia To Dear Mother from Bob with best wishes. I hope you will like my beautiful costume. It is not a very costly robe. Send in your order without delay we are...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:55 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2004
Category: McKitrick
John Quiggin has another post on the right wing attack on science, this time describing the Australian front. Chris Mooney has great article in the The American Prospect about James Inhofe's part in the attack on science. And Iain...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 PM • 20 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
April 18, 2004
Category: Milloy
John Quiggin has an interesting post putting the disinformation peddled by folks like Steve Milloy and Iain Murray in a broader context: But at some point, it must be necessary to abandon the case-by-case approach and adopt a summary...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:21 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2004
Category: statistics
A couple of days ago, I told the story of GEP, how a tobacco company tried to get epidemiologists to adopt a bogus principle that risk factors of less than 2should be ignored. I noted that Iain Murray was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:18 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2004
Category: Baghdad
In July last year, Lott, armed with no evidence at all, claimed that Washington DC had a higher murder rate than Baghdad. Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Lott stuck to his guns, even demanding that the New...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:33 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2004
Category: surveys
The latest quiz to sweep blogspace is this quiz, which tests your ability to distinguish between quotes from comments at Little Green Footballs and quotes from Late German Fascists. Matt Yglesias' post on the quiz triggered an extremely ill-tempered...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:50 PM • 12 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
April 13, 2004
Category: Milloy
When I wrote earlier about Steve Milloy, I commented on his attack on a study that found that the introduction safe-storage laws was followed by a 23% reduction in unintentional shooting deaths of children. Milloy claimed: The reported 23%...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:23 PM • • 2 TrackBacks
April 5, 2004
Category: surveys
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) attempts to classify each pesonality into one of 16 types described by the four letter codes in the table below. TypeLogic has descriptions of all the types, as well as a FAQ. You can...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:08 PM • 11 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
April 3, 2004
Category: UK
Kevin Baker was one of the bloggers who posted on the story about Lindsay's sword killing, claiming that it showed that for all intents and purposes self-defence in the UK was illegal. Despite learning that Lindsay had chased the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:41 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
