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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
January 29, 2005
Category: politics
What Max Sawicky says. Update: Reynold's response? He doesn't link or rebut or even give his readers a clue that he is responding to a particular post, no he just likens Sawicky to a monkey. Real mature. Update 2:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:22 PM • 11 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent article on the Lancet study and the way it was ignored in the American news media. Daniel Davies notes that the blogs have just as bad: Other than that, the response...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2005
Category: Global Warming
My Tech Central Station column is up....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:56 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: UK
The latest crime figures in the UK are out and show that crime has continued to fall, reaching a record low: The risk of being a victim of crime, at 25 per cent, is the lowest recorded by the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:08 AM • 65 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2005
Category: More Guns Less Crime
The NAS has responded to Lott's attack on their panel on firearms research. I'm posting their whole letter: A Lott of misinformation The recent column by John Lott about the National Research Council's project and report on improving scientific...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: More Guns Less Crime
One of the disagreements between Lott and the NAS panel is on the question of whether the models fit the data. Joel Horowitz explains the problem in Appendix D of the report. For people who don't like equations, I'll...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:05 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2005
Category: Fumento
Following the tsunami, the folks at Junk Tech Fumento Central Science Station (JTFCSS) have been calling for DDT spraying. Here's Michael Fumento: The best answer would be spraying with DDT. Unfortunately, environmentalists have demonized DDT based essentially on unfounded...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:24 PM • 21 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 22, 2005
Category: meta
Google has come up with a solution for comment spam. From now on, if a link contains the "nofollow" attribute (rel="nofollow"), Google will not count it for page rank. All you have to do is configure your blog so...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:39 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Chris Mooney has a well-written review of Michael Crichton's State of Fear. I picked up a copy at the book store and read a couple of pages from the middle. It was like a Tech Central Station column, except...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:16 PM • 28 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 20, 2005
Category: Bolt
The target of one of Tim Blair's five-minute hates on Wednesday was fellow journalist Peter FitzSimons. FitzSimons' crime? He said there had been an estimated 100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq. Now you could quibble that the Lancet study measured all...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:42 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 19, 2005
Category: Global Warming
David Tiley has an has an interesting summary of a BBC program on Global Dimming. It seems that, over the past 40 years, while the amount of sunlight reaching the top of the atmosphere has not changed, the amount...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:04 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2005
Category: Fumento
After Fumento promised me: Now I am going to do the worst possible thing you can do to somebody who measures his life by "hits." I'm not going to write to you again, what do I find in my...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:03 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta
Not only are arguments not allowed in the comments on Tim Blair's blog, it is one of the most uncivil places in Australian blogspace. The rest of this post is below the fold because it contains quotes from his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:01 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2005
Category: world
Today is a day of mourning in Australia for tsunami victims and John Quiggin is donating $1 to Australian Red Cross tsunami appeal for each comment left at this post on his blog. I know we have some redoubtable commenters...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:57 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
January 14, 2005
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has some more comments on the NAS panel report on firearms research. (Also posted at the Volokh Conspiracy.) Lott adds to his earlier claims that the panel was biased with this: In fact, the panel apparently originated with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 12, 2005
Category: meta
It's now two years since I started this web log. Here is my first post. Originally it was just a page for me to join the discussion about Lott's fabricated survey, but the focus seems to have expanded beyond that....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:11 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 9, 2005
Category: computers
According to my logs, about half of the visitors here are using Internet Explorer. There is a critical security hole in Internet Explorer that allows a web site you visit to take over your computer. Secunia has the details...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:55 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Fumento
Welcome to the 2004 Deltoid awards. Today we are giving out the Golden Rake Award, named in honour of Sideshow Bob and the rakes in the Simpsons Cape Feare episode: How many other series would waste valuable prime-time real...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:34 AM • 5 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
January 7, 2005
Category: meta
I've been nominated for a Koufax award best single issue blog over at Wampum. They have me listed under the issue "Australian politics", which isn't close to being correct. I want to correct them, but how would you describe...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:51 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 6, 2005
Category: Global Warming
William Connolley at RealClimate provides a useful summary of the scientific consensus on global warming. He notes That the increase in atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic is so obvious that few people question it Of course, Louis Hissink is one...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:57 PM • 98 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: world
Now I thought that Australians were being extremely generous with $110 million in private donations (that's over $5 per capita) and $1 billion from the Australian government but over at Tech Central Station Jackson Kuhl and Nick Schulz have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:43 AM • 31 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 4, 2005
Category: misc
John Lott and Michael Bellesiles are both mentioned in a new book, Historians in Trouble by Jon Wiener. Wiener argues that the reason why Lott still has his job but Bellesiles doesn't is power: The answer briefly is power---especially...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:51 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 2, 2005
Category: politics
Tim Blair posted this accusation that the UN was lying about the tsunami relief effort: Via Diplomad, some comments from the UN's Jan Egeland: In Aceh, today 50 trucks of relief supplies are arriving. <...> Tomorrow, we will have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:25 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 1, 2005
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott has published an op-ed in the New York Post on the NAS panel. Lott once again claims that the panel was stacked: The panel was set up during the Clinton administration, and all but one of its members...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 PM • 73 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: surveys
Via Jim Henley comes a test to see how nerdy you are. Like my previous quiz pages, you can post your score here and a link to your blog here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:35 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
