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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
November 30, 2004
Category: Fumento
Yes, he's back! Over at his website Fumento has posted Hate Mail, Volume 32, which contains his creatively edited version of our exchange. According to Fumento, it went like this: Fumento: And no, the Lancet column I wrote didn't...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:12 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2004
Category: Kininmonth
The Lavoisier group is an Australian astroturf operation. John Quiggin observed that: This body is devoted to the proposition that basic principles of physics, discovered by among others, the famous French scientist Antoine Lavoisier, cease to apply when they...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:15 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
November 27, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
The latest pundit to attack the Lancet study is somebody called John Lott. He writes: I haven't spent a lot of time going through the methodology used in this survey by Lancet, but I don't know how one could...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:26 PM • 105 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
I haven't commented on Kaplan's shoddy critique of the Lancet because Daniel Davies already demolished it here. Kaplan did have one argument that Davies did not address, so I will deal with that in this post. Kaplan wrote: The...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:34 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
David Adesnik has replied to my post on malnutrition in Iraq. He has conceded that the Washington Post was reporting the results of a new survey rather than the results of one from 2003. But he is still arguing that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
One of the arguments made against the Lancet study was that the study had greatly underestimated the pre-war mortality rate, because the study found that it was about 29 per 1000 live births, while UNICEF estimated that it was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:25 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
Chris Bertram points out that a new study suggests that the Lancet's finding of an increase in infant mortality following the invasion of Iraq is correct. The Washington Post reports: After the rate of acute malnutrition among children younger...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:59 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: personal
Our dog has developed a fear of traffic. Since we live on a busy street, this is a problem. It all started when he was crossing the street with Carmen and a car went through the red light without...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:30 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2004
Category: meet up
Darp and Jess organized a get together of bloggers in Sydney last Friday. I wandered along and, well, there were a lot of people there. Despite having been to two previous such gatherings, the only bloggers I had met...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2004
Category: Bolt
The latest pundit to have a go at the Lancet study is Andrew Bolt. Like most of the critics, Bolt just does not have the statistical background to produce a competent critique. In Bolt's case this is even less...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:12 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2004
Category: personal
From Kieran Healy I learn that Otis Dudley Duncan has died. It was Duncan who started the investigation into John Lott's mysterious survey. When Duncan first contacted me with his concerns, I found it almost impossible to conceive that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:02 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2004
Category: computers
Tech Central Station has an article by Robert McHenry criticising Wikipedia for inaccuracy. Yes, this Tech Central Station. McHenry found an error in the Wikipedia article on Alexander Hamilton. Of course, within hours of his pointing out the error,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Sadly, it looks as if Michael Fumento has retired from the field. All I can offer any folks suffering withdrawal symptoms is this thread. James M describes it like this: I noticed a truly spectacular example of what I...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: links
Kevin Drum is displeased that the LA Times published another op-ed from John Lott: The man is a fraud and the Times demeans itself by allowing him space on their pages....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:32 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
November 15, 2004
Category: Fumento
For someone who holds blogs in contempt, Michael Fumento sure spends a lot of time posting comments to blogs. Here he is again: (Hat tip: John Fleck, now the third site on a Google search for "Michael Fumento") My...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:12 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta
The Site Meter counter just ticked over to 300,000 visits. I really appreciate all the visitors, especially the ones who have left comments....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:38 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2004
Category: academia
The Times Higher Education Supplement has produced a list of the world's top universities. They must have used a good methodology because UNSW came in at number 36. The United States dominated the list, with 20 out of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:41 PM • 24 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
November 13, 2004
Category: Fumento
The fun continues in this comment thread. Highlights: Michael Fumento: The authors claimed to have come up with one set of numbers including Falluja, another without. But strangely, they never present the "without numbers." Lambert knows this because I told...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:31 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 12, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
Daniel Davies has an excellent roundup of the Lancet discussion. I've added an update to my post about Gerard Alexander's attack on the Lancet. Chris at Mixing Memory takes down another Lancet critique, this one by John Ray....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:15 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2004
Category: Fumento
Fumento left a comment on my earlier post. Instead of discussing the Lancet article, he boasted how his column had been published in the on the web site of the Lake Wylie Pilot, which is a free weekly newspaper...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:31 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
The defective refutations of the Lancet study just keep on coming. First, we have Gerard Alexander writing in the Weekly standard: But the study's researchers were sure to survey in Falluja, far and away the most violent city in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:35 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Fumento
John Fleck commented on my exchange with Fumento here and here. He responded to Fumento's silly charge that I "occupy the pitiful place of the harmless blogger who blogs because nobody in his right mind would punish (sic) him"...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:25 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 7, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
One interesting feature of blogspace discussion of the Lancet study has been the comments from warbloggers, who, despite not even knowing what cluster sampling is, have been absolutely certain that the methodology of the study has been discredited. For...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 6, 2004
Category: Brignell
Yet another person has tried to refute the Lancet article. John Brignell dismisses the study just because: A relative risk of 1.5 is not acceptable as significant. Actually the increased risk was statistically significant. You won't find support for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:12 PM • 113 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
November 5, 2004
Category: Fumento
The Anchorage Daily News has published a new version of Michael Fumento's attempt to debunk the Lancet study on deaths in Iraq. How does it differ from his previous attempt? Well his key argument was that their estimate was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:28 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 3, 2004
Category: Fumento
I wrote earlier how it seems that you must fail a qualifying exam before you can write on a topic at Tech Central Station. Now the errors in Fumento's critique of the Lancet study.aren't errors in epidemiology---they seem to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:03 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 2, 2004
Category: Fumento
Tech Central Station has published Tim Worstall's admission that his critique of the Lancet Iraq study was completely wrong: Further to my article of Friday on this subject. I'm afraid I mangled the statistical argument. My inadequate knowledge of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:38 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 1, 2004
Category: UK
Earlier, I wrote how Joyce Lee Malcolm had doctored a quote from the Textbook of Criminal Law to make it appear that self-defence was illegal in Britain. She wrote: Now everything turns on what seems to be "reasonable" force...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:44 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Sometimes I think that there must be a qualifying exam in order to write for Tech Central Station. Fail the exam and you're in. They seem to have exams in at least physics, economics, statistics, and epidemiology. Tim Worstall,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:07 AM • 12 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
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