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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
August 29, 2004
Category: misc
On his blog Lott reports that he was recently asked by a reporter whether President Bush was evil or just stupid. If a reporter asks a question like that it raises serious questions about her objectivity. How can a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:36 PM • 11 Comments •
August 26, 2004
Category: McKitrick
I've had a closer look at the "bombshell" paper that Patrick Michaels described like this: After four years of one of the most rigorous peer reviews ever, Canadian Ross McKitrick and another of us (Michaels) published a paper searching...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:30 AM • 28 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
August 23, 2004
Category: politics
Scott Campbell has a go at the Australian Historical Association, somehow managing to misread Cathie Clement's proposal that historians should not publicly attack their colleagues' integrity as a proposal that historians should not publicly disagree. Campbell has a fine...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:07 PM • 8 Comments •
August 16, 2004
Category: patmichaels
In my previous post I commented on the various responses of sceptics now that both that satellite and surface record show global warming is happening. (The map below shows the global warming trend for the troposphere from the satellite...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:52 PM • 38 Comments •
August 11, 2004
Category: Global Warming
(The title of this post is a quote from John Maynard Keynes.) Today I want to look at different responses to new information about global warming. I'll go first: In my archives I found a Usenet post of mine...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:59 PM • 34 Comments •
August 10, 2004
Category: misc
Kevin Baker observes that Lott has removed Baker from his blogroll, presumably because Baker has described Lott as the pro-gun version of Michael Bellesiles. This fits in with Lott's practice of not linking to criticism, which suggests that he...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:42 PM • 3 Comments •
August 8, 2004
Category: misc
From pages 469 and 471 of Richard North Patterson's novel Balance of Power: If the purpose of deposing an expert witness was to help him hang himself, Sarah meant to be as helpful as possible to Dr. Frederick Glass. "Dr....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:59 PM • 1 Comments •
August 7, 2004
Category: UK
John Ray left a rather odd comment to my post about the continuing decrease in violent crime in England. He stated that police figures for gun crimes will be more accurate than survey figures. His statement is probably true...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 PM • 8 Comments •
August 5, 2004
Category: meta
"> Wikipedia states: Godwin's Law (also Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 PM • •
August 1, 2004
Category: UK
The latest crime statistics for England and Wales have been released. Sharon Howard has a good round-up of reactions to the statistics: What's happening here is that the British Crime Survey is suddenly being discounted by Tory politicians because...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:43 PM • 5 Comments •
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