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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
May 28, 2004
Category: computers
Last year I wrote about how Tech Central Station was an astroturf operation, drafted by a public relations company to provide supposedly independent support for the PR companies clients. The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute (ADTI) is another astroturf operation....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:39 PM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: computers
This is a list of the documents that detail the astroturf campaign conducted by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute (ADTI) on behalf of Philip Morris (PM) against the Clinton health plan in 1994. They were obtained by a search...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:34 PM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
May 26, 2004
Category: cherry picking
Hunt Stilwell asks: since the gun lobby's statistical claims have been debunked so thoroughly and so often, why do they continue to use them, and why do people continue to buy them? Brian Linse thinks there has been some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:18 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
To all the people arriving here via a search for "Washingtonian blog": The following table is provided as a public service so that you can keep your pseudonymous posters straight: PseudonymReal nameWrites aboutBlog linkNews story Mary RoshJohn R Lott...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:08 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2004
Category: cherry picking
Lott has a new article at Fox News where he claims that gun control is unravelling: Crime did not fall in England after handguns were banned in January 1997. Quite the contrary, crime rose sharply. Yet, serious violent crime...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:50 AM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
May 20, 2004
Category: McKitrick
Last week I wrote about Paul Georgia's review of Essex and McKitrick's Taken by Storm. Based on their book, Georgia made multiple incorrect statements about the physics of temperature. Of course, it might have just been that Georgia misunderstood...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:55 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 16, 2004
Category: Global Warming
In comments to my previous post on Paul Georgia's nonsense about temperature, Sarah wrote: Yes, bad physics, but that was an easy target. I'd like to see you take on a hard target, like the petition signed by 17,000...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:05 PM • 63 Comments • 4 TrackBacks
May 11, 2004
Category: Global Warming
I wrote earlier correcting Ross McKitrick's false claim that there is no such thing as Global Temperature. Unfortunately McKitrick's claim has been adopted and spread by people ignorant of basic physics. For example, consider this review of Essex and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:10 AM • 127 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
May 3, 2004
Category: UK
Back in March I wrote about the way pro-gun bloggers leapt to the conclusion that self-defence in the UK was illegal, based on story about a man who defended himself against some robbers with a sword, killed one and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:23 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 2, 2004
Category: survey
Last December I examined a posting by John Ray who dismissed ozone depletion as a "Greenie scare" using facts he seemed to have just made up by himself. Now he's back, attacking gun control. This time he's not using...
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