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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
March 31, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
The Lancet has published two letters on the Iraqi Mortality Study. In the first letter, Stephen Apfelroth claims that cluster sampling is an invalid methodology. This criticism was dealt with way back in November. Apfelroth is wrong. Cluster sampling is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:34 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Alastair Mackay (AMac in comments) has posted his criticism of the Lancet study at Winds of Change. Unlike many of the critics, Mackay actually knows some statistics, so he cannot find fault with the methodology. All he can do...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:19 AM • 95 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
March 29, 2005
Category: DDT
The latest folks to spread the DDT hoax are Kopel, Gallant and Eisen. They claim: [Malaria] is a disaster manufactured by First World political correctness; DDT prohibition is scientifically indefensible, and is responsible for millions of deaths every year....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
After accusing the researchers and the Lancet of fraud and treason, Shannon Love is back with another accusation. The latest crime he accuses them of is rounding things off: One easily graspable example in the Lancet study's dishonesty is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:54 PM • 102 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2005
Category: CFCs and ozone
William Connolley lists another ten global warming myths. PZ Myers delivers a righteous smackdown to Paul from Wizbang for Paul's profoundly ignorant attacks on evolution. (Paul's responds by calling evolution a cult.) As well as having totally demolished* the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:09 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Go and read this most excellent post by William Connolley debunking many of the popular myths about global warming....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:38 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Daniel Davies comments on the current outbreak of Lancet denialism, including Shannon Love's latest effort which Love describes as a "Fisking". ("Fisking" is a term bloggers use for especially lame posts.) Love gets taken to bits in the comments...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:09 AM • 130 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
March 23, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Lila Guterman writes in the Columbia Journalism Review about the dismal reporting of the Lancet study: Last fall, a major public-health study appeared in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, only to be missed or dismissed by the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:55 PM • 86 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
March 22, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Andy S, last seen criticizing the Lancet study without reading it, has now read it. Sort of. He writes: Of Iraq's 18 provinces only 12 were actually visited. ... Now clusters assigned to the unsurveyed provinces were replaced in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:44 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
If you haven't read my previous forty posts on the Lancet study, here is a handy index. All right, let's go. First up, via Glenn Reynolds we have Andy S, who critiques the Lancet study despite not having read...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:59 PM • 83 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
March 19, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
The Fourth Skeptics Circle is here. Lots of interesting posts. In particular I recommend Richard Rockley's "Five Apples"---he could almost be wrting about criticisms of the Lancet study....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:32 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2005
Category: Bolt
Tim Blair has posted emails from Ted Lapkin and Andrew Bolt who object to a couple of my posts. Blair fails to provide links to the posts so that readers can determine whether Lapkin and Bolt have accurately described what...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:31 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta
In my previous post I noted that Tim Blair had posted: Can I ask all timblair.net regulars to stop commenting here. This is exactly what he wants and you're only encouraging him. In my comments someone also claiming to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:01 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 17, 2005
Category: meta
So I was reading this thread on John Quiggin's blog when the discussion turned to Tim Blair's policy of banning any dissenters from commenting on his blog. (See here for an example of the sort of comment that will...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:57 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Apparently the Lancet report is so disturbing to some pro-war folks that they are now denying its very existence. Here's Tim Blair, listing stories that he believes progressives have invented: Poor progressives. All they have is Lancet reports, Ayad...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:24 AM • 168 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2005
Category: DDT
Two more lazy and ignorant pundits have been spotted spreading the hoax about a non-existant DDT ban. In the New York Times Nicholas Kristof writes Environmentalists were right about DDT's threat to bald eagles, for example, but blocking all...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:26 PM • 20 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
March 12, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
A large group of public health experts has criticized the coalition for their continuing failure to count the civilian casualties in Iraq. In an editorial in the British Medical Journal Klim McPherson writes: Public access to reliable data on...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:11 PM • 28 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
March 11, 2005
Category: survey
When people raise questions about the mysterious 1997 survey, Lott's standard line of defence is: "the survey was replicated, and I obtained very similar results." So how similar are the results? Well, Lott claims that the 2002 survey gave...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 7, 2005
Category: misc
In Lott's latest piece he is once more complaining that the media doesn't report defensive gun use. Mark Wilson intervened to try to stop a shooting rampage in Texas. Unfortunately, the shooter was wearing body armour and Wilson was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:23 AM • 31 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
March 4, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
Radagast has put together the third edition of the Skeptics' Circle. Lots of good reading there. Thanks, Radagast!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:42 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
March 2, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
By considering bogus criticisms of the Lancet study it is possible to gain an appreciation of the concept of the infinite. No matter how many you've seen, someone can always come up with a new one. I give you...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:41 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 1, 2005
Category: politics
Lott and James Glassman have a piece in the New York Post arguing that felons should not be allowed to vote. Well, I can't claim to know anything about the issue (for that, see Kevin Drum and Julie Saltman), but...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:54 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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