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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
April 30, 2005
Category: Global Warming
To mark the centenary of the publication of Einstein's famous equation, Spiked has surveyed over 250 renowned scientists, science communicators, and educators - including 11 Nobel laureates - asking what they would teach the world about science and why,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:16 PM • 17 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
Check out the Seventh Skeptics Circle here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:27 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2005
Category: reviews
This book review by Matt Taibi of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat is brilliantly funny. Go read it. Taibi's review has been widely linked and praised by bloggers but I have found a blogger who didn't like it---John...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:06 PM • 136 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: files
Lott's responses to Michelle Malkin's op-ed are in a fixed-width font, while my comments on his response are in italics like this. Lott's responses were downloaded on 25 April 2005....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:16 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Socialist Worker has an interview with Les Roberts about his Lancet survey. There are comments on the interview on Crooked Timber and Shot by Both Sides. Roberts makes the point that a NEJM study that surveyed US soldiers on...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:50 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2005
Category: surveys
Ken Parish, bored, is asking bloggers to post their scores on the political compass survey. I already have a page where bloggers can do this, but it is a bit unwieldy with 500+ entries. So I thought it would...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:45 PM • 17 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
April 20, 2005
Category: astroturf
A new organization Climatechangeissues.com has sprung into existence in Australia to support solutions to the unresolved issues of climate change which are based on sound science, use market mechanisms and trade liberalisation as a key driver of economic growth...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:05 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 18, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Via Chris Mooney I find this comprehensive Mother Jones feature on the science and politics of global warming. I found it interesting to compare this handy chart of forty think tanks that have received scads of money from ExxonMobil...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:22 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2005
Category: politics
I got some spam from David Horowitz asking for donations to fund his lifestyle or something. Brad R. at Sadly, No, got the same spam. (Except that where his had "Brad" mine had "Tim".) So who is this Horowitz fellow?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:42 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
The Sixth Skeptics Circle is here. Check it out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:35 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bingo
Reading and listening to global warming sceptics can get a little tedious because they keep trotting out the same discredited arguments. So I've come up with a little game you can play to make it more interesting. I call...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:10 AM • 64 Comments • 5 TrackBacks
April 14, 2005
Category: bobcarter
Michael Duffy has followed up his radio show that misrepresented the science of global warming with more of the same. He had Bob Carter on this time and Carter trotted out all the favourite falsehoods of the global warming...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:48 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 11, 2005
Category: reviews
We bought a house a few years ago. It was our first entry into the real estate market and it was quite scary. Most houses in Sydney are sold by auction, and this seemed to be a way to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:17 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Australia's own version of Baghdad Bob offers the following comments on the Lancet study (slightly paraphrased): "The Lancet, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:26 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Chris Mooney has posted a transcript of a talk he gave at Rutgers on way that a misguided balance in science reporting between mainstream science and fringe beliefs misleads people. Michael Duffy has presented a radio program on climate...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:49 AM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
April 8, 2005
Category: meta
I've added gravatars to the comments. You can have a little icon (your gravatar) that represents you next to each comment you post. All you have to do is upload your icon at the Gravatar site and enter your email...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:44 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 6, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Via William Sjostrom I find that Mike Adams has distilled Lancet denialism down to its essence. He quotes from the New Scientist's description of the Lancet study: "The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by coalition forces has lead...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:52 PM • 98 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 2, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Via commenter JoT we have an interview with Les Roberts about his study. Roberts mentions how surprised he was that was a such a large increase in violent deaths. From his previous studies in other war situations he expected...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:59 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 1, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
The Fifth Skeptics Circle is here. The link to Mike Huben's pre-blogging blog brought back memories with this eulogy for Steve Kangas. Before there was the Lancet study there was Kellermann et al's NEJM study that found that owning...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:04 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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