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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
February 28, 2005
Category: astroturf
I wrote earlier about how tobacco company documents, released as apart of the Tobacco Settlement Agreement proved that Philip Morris created junkscience.com to argue that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) was harmless. Those documents also tell the story of how...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2005
Category: Global Warming
According to this profile, Miranda Devine (last seen making stuff up in an attempt to debunk the Lancet study), once worked for the textile physics division of CSIRO. So she should know that one purpose of peer review is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:37 PM • 67 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2005
Category: DDT
Ted Lapkin has objected to my reference to him in my post on the Great DDT Hoax. In his email he writes: I would very much prefer, if possible, to keep things on an informal basis rather than a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:25 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
R.J. Rummel has a response to my earlier post on the Lancet study. Unfortunately he still does not understand what the researchers did. In his original post Rummel claimed the pre-invasion statistics came from Saddam's Ministry of Health. In fact,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:57 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Tangled Bank is a showcase of blog posts on biology, medicine or natural history. The latest compilation is here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
King at SCSU Scholars has updated his post attacking the Lancet study with a response to my post. He admits error on one point, but on the rest he has the nerve to accuse me of bringing biases rather...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:04 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
In today's Sydney Morning Herald Miranda Devine has a go at the Lancet study, writing The British medical journal The Lancet published a paper last October (timed deliberately, its authors admit, before the US presidential election), estimating that 100,000 more...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:46 PM • 60 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 23, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Via Chris Brook and Anthony Cox, I find that Melanie Philips took the same combination of ignorance of science and utter certainty that the scientists are wrong that she used to "prove" that global warming was a scam and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:37 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 22, 2005
Category: Bolt
Last week Kyoto came into effect. Apparently that was the signal for columns by a whole bunch of pundits who have two features in common: 1. they are manifestly ill-equipped to understand the science and 2. they are utterly...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:03 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
King at SCSU Scholars has had another go at the Lancet study. King writes: Many of Saddam's dead were not murdered in the presence of witnesses; there is no indication that the authors of the study charged Saddam with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Realclimate has a good explanation of the latest battle in the hockey stick wars. It looks to me like McIntyre & McKitrick's claim (that the hockey stick is the product of an erroneous calculation) is not correct. That doesn't...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
King at SCSU Scholars demonstrates that he doesn't understand what the Lancet study did: The point is that the cost of U.S. intervention isn't the total loss of life since March 2003 but the difference between what we know...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:34 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 18, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Via Suki Lombard I discover that the Australian government's position on Iraqi deaths because of the war is that the Lancet estimate of roughly 100,000 excess deaths is an exaggeration and we have no idea how many have died...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:23 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: politics
Roy Eccleston has an article on blogs in The Australian. He is startled to find that thanks to blogs, some Americans believe an entirely false story about how Diana Kerry interfered in the Australian election, based on a contrived...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: world
John Quiggin is donating $1 to Medecins Sans Frontieres for each comment he gets on this post. Go and leave a comment! The money will aid the The Global Fund to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Your comment might...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:35 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
February 17, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
Orac has done a wonderful job of organising a slew of links to skeptical blogging into the Skeptics' Circle. (We're talking about the good kind of skepticism here, not global warming/ozone depletion/evolution sceptics.) However, I must take issue with one...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:04 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DDT
Supporting sources for this post on the resurgence of malaria in Sri Lanka despite DDT spraying....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:30 AM • 2 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: Brignell
Anti-environmentalist writers frequently claim that after DDT had all but eliminated malaria from Sri Lanka, environmentalist pressure forced Sri Lanka to ban DDT, leading to a resurgence of malaria: Roger Bate in Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking writes: Some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:30 AM • 10 Comments • 6 TrackBacks
February 15, 2005
Category: meta
There has been a flurry of bloggers pretending to be females. Via Jason Soon we have the exposure of Libertarian Girl, who was actually a guy. Another faker recently exposed was Hot Abercrombie Chick. And the winner of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:37 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 14, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Chris Mooney has an excellent article on how "balanced" coverage of scientific issues can misinform readers: Moreover, the question of how to substitute accuracy for mere "balance" in science reporting has become ever more pointed as journalists have struggled...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 13, 2005
Category: Global Warming
William Connolley has an interesting post on a new reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2000 years. It's the blue line in the graph to the right. It suggests that things were colder in the past than the hockey...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:23 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
You would think that after all this time, all possible erroneous arguments against the Lancet study would have been made, but folks keep coming up with new ones. R.J. Rummel has come up with some new ones. Unlike many of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:22 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2005
Category: Brignell
John Brignell has an odd response (scroll down to "Hit Parade") to some of my criticism. He doesn't link, or dare to even mention my name, so it's probably rather mystifying to his readers what he is responding to....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:29 PM • 19 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 10, 2005
Category: DDT
In a recent post I observed that the Junk Central Station crew were ignorantly advocating the use of DDT in Sri Lanka after the tsunami, apparently unaware that mosquitoes in Sri Lanka were resistant to DDT. The World Health...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:30 PM • 10 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 9, 2005
Category: Bolt
Andrew Bolt, writing in the Melbourne Herald Sun offers this conclusive disproof of important evidence against global warming: Melbourne last week had its coldest February day on record, and its wettest day, which should surprise those still naive enough to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:37 PM • 17 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 4, 2005
Category: meta
Embarrassing Correction: I screwed up. Somehow I pasted the wrong IP into a query. I thought I was checking Brignell's IP, but it was actually Per's. Per and "James Brown" are the same person, but his real name is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:38 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 2, 2005
Category: UK
I wrote earlier about the pernicious and dishonest campaign by the London Daily Telegraph to scare people into thinking that self-defence against burglars was unlawful. To correct this misinformation the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a statement detailing what...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:14 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Sagenz has joined the very small and select group of critics of the Lancet study with the honesty to recant and withdraw their criticism. Chris Young has written a letter to Slate's Fred Kaplan, suggesting that Kaplan correct his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:08 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 1, 2005
Category: meta
Via David Tiley we have an interview with one the scumbags who comment spam blogs. One of them just finally left my blog alone after trying to leave about a hundred trackback spams. I deleted the first few that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:36 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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