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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
December 29, 2004
Category: world
The Sydney Morning Herald has an informative page with news and links for donations. I donated to The Australian Red Cross, who have already raised $3 million. You have to look hard to find any good aspect to such...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:34 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2004
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Jim Lindgren thinks the panel was too generous to Lott: From the portions that I have read, I found the report sober, impressive, and fair, though there are substantial parts of this literature that I am unfamiliar with. As...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:11 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 25, 2004
Category: personal
Here are my kids at the beach on Christmas day. Best wishes to all my readers....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:13 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 23, 2004
Category: links
Boffo blog tells the story of a Lott presentation at a workshop about a decade ago: I was not prepared for how truly awful the paper was. His argument concerned how expensive elections have become in this country. ......
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:28 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 22, 2004
Category: Global Warming
Louis Hissink has responded to my post on the worst argument against global warming, ever: Well yes Tim, the Holy See seemed to need to recalibrate the calendar, and in Medieval times, no one was observing the heavens for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:22 PM • 37 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
December 19, 2004
Category: More Guns Less Crime
As I predicted, Lott claims that the panel was stacked: My piece in the LA Times is still accurate today. While I will write up a more substantive discussion, James Q. Wilson's very unusual dissent in the first appendix...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:23 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2004
Category: Global Warming
Not content with printing op-eds by John Lott, the LA Times has published a piece of disinformation by Nick Schultz. The LA Times fails to disclose that Schultz works for a public relations company that has ExxonMobil as a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:36 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Stuart Benjamin writes: [John Lott's] core thesis, though, was called into doubt by a number of researchers, most prominently in a study (and reply, both complete with data sets) written by Ian Ayres and John Donohue, two top empirical...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:32 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 17, 2004
Category: suicide
The National Academy of Sciences panel on firearms and violence has reported its findings. The press release says: There is no credible evidence that "right-to-carry" laws, which allow qualified adults to carry concealed handguns, either decrease or increase violent crime....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:45 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
December 15, 2004
Category: Global Warming
Lavoisier group member Louis Hissink has a response to my post and John Quiggin's on the Lavoisier group. A summary cannot do it justice, so I will quote extensively: A quick scan of the blogosphere reporting on William Kininmonth's recent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:30 PM • 65 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: meta
Nominations have opened for the 2005 Australian Blog Awards. I don't you should take awards like these too seriously, but they are a good way for folks to let others know about interesting blogs....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:15 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
December 14, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
The biggest limitation of the Lancet study is the small sample size. We can be reasonably confident that deaths have increased in Iraq since the invasion, but the 100,000 estimate is a very rough one. The sample from Falluja...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:41 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 12, 2004
Category: UK
The London Daily Telegraph has been running a cynical and dishonest campaign in the UK to give people the right to defend themselves against burglars. It's dishonest because, as I have detailed here and here, people in the UK...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:39 PM • 133 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 10, 2004
Category: McKitrick
Excellent news. Some climate scientists have started a blog called RealClimate, something sorely needed to correct the disinformation put about by Tech Central Station and the like. I hope they can do for climate science what The Panda's Thumb...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:46 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: surveys
This post is a way for me to keep track of which blogs have blogrolled me. If you have a blog and have had the good taste to blogroll me, you can add your blog here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:53 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 8, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
Mike Harwood asked Les Roberts about the breakdown of the violent deaths. Roberts' reply: Yes, all 12 non-coalition violent deaths happened outside of Falluja. (1 Kut, 1 Thiqar, 1 Karbala, 7 Baghdad, 1 Diala, 1 Missan, Note Baghdad is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:39 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 7, 2004
Category: survey
In an email to a poster at The High Road forum Lott writes "The actual data has been available on one of my websites at www.johnlott.org since February 2003. The Appendix of my book, The Bias Against Guns, goes...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:19 PM • 40 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
December 3, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
Daniel Davies takes apart another bogus critique of the Lancet study, this one from the British Foreign Office that relies on comparing apples to oranges. Michael Lewis at Iraq Analysis has a more detailed rebuttal. Remarkably, Tech Central Station...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 2, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
Medact, a UK health charity has a new study on the effects of the war on health and the health system in Iraq. Some extracts: A recent scientific study has suggested that upwards of 100,000 Iraqis may have died...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:29 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 1, 2004
Category: LancetIraq
Just when you thought you had seen all the different possible attacks on the Lancet study, Helle Dale, writing in the Washington Times, comes up with a new one: the study's authors are having second thoughts. Dale writes As...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:07 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
