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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
June 30, 2004
Category: cherry picking
In response to criticism that Lott used cherry picked numbers to claim that homicides had increased following gun registration in Canada, "Maxim" posted on Usenet: The law started in December 1998. Guns did not have to be registered until 2001....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2004
Category: misc
Mike Adams has an article on John Lott and Michael Moore where he writes: The thesis of "Bowling for Columbine" is sometimes difficult to ascertain because Moore frequently contradicts himself in the movie. Nonetheless, I think that he is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:43 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2004
Category: misc
On his blog, John Lott writes The Public's Response to Michael Moore's Sources David Letterman: How do we know what's in your film [Fahrenheit 9/11] is true? Michael Moore: Because I got most of my information from The New...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2004
Category: meta
Site Meter says that I have now had 200,000 visits to this blog. The post that attracted the most visits was the one I made a few days ago on think tanks and Open Source, with about 35,000 visits,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:03 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2004
Category: computers
Think tanks vs Open Source The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute's attack on Linux is just the latest in a series of attacks on Open Source by think tanks: Date Think Tank Author/Title Extracts Sep 19, 2002 Competitive Enterprise Institute James...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:03 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
The National Post has printed a letter from Gary Mauser commenting on the Lott/Lehrer oped I discussed earlier. Here is the whole thing: It should not surprise many people that Canada's gun laws have not worked (More Gun Control...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2004
Category: cherry picking
Lott has teamed up with Eli Lehrer for another cherry picking exercise. In an op-ed drafted in National Post they get straight to it with an outrageous cherry pick in just the second sentence: Gun control has not worked...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:52 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2004
Category: computers
The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute's attack on Linux gets taken apart in Lee Gomes' Wall Street Journal article: An institute study issued last month ups the ante in Linux criticism. It tries to prove that Linux's Linus Torvalds has...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:17 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2004
Category: Australia
Jason Soon has a series of posts on gun control in Australia here, here and here. I felt that the laws here before 1996 were about right and I do not think that the 1996 laws were a good...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:15 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 16, 2004
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has a new post on blog where he writes: 6/15/04 Two-thirds of Police Chiefs think Right-to-carry Laws Reduce Crime A new survey by the National Association of Chiefs of Police asks members: "Do you agree that a national...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:46 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 8, 2004
Category: computers
Ken Brown has a reply to the heavy criticism of his paper claiming that Linus Torvalds did not write Linux. ADTI introduce his reply like this: Experts from Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds agree: a. they are much smarter...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:25 AM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
June 2, 2004
Category: computers
John Quiggin has a heuristic to help detect outfits like The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. ADTI claimed that Ken Brown's attack on Linux was based on "extensive interviews" with "Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, and Andrew Tanenbaum". We already saw Tanenbaum's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: misc
At the The High Road there was some discussion of the cherry picked Lott article I discussed here. One poster, "agricola", criticized Lott, linking to my blog. Another poster, "fallingblock", responded: I contacted John Lott a while back and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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