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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
May 31, 2005
Category: meta
Today's Sydney Morning Herald has several articles on blogs and blogging. I get a mention in this one, as "one of a handful of prominent bloggers covering news, politics and economics". It's nice to be mentioned like that, but...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:31 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
As my readers know, the reason why the Lancet study and the ILCS give different numbers for deaths in Iraq is because the studies measured different things over a different time periods. Of course, that fact isn't going to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:06 PM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
The Ninth Skeptics Circle is out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:06 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2005
Category: politics
Congratulations to blogger Arthur Chrenkoff for getting an article in the New York Times based on his "Good news from Iraq" posts. I thought it would be interesting to look at all the good news from Iraq on one...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:12 PM • 38 Comments • 4 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
I wrote earlier on Zbigniew Jaworowski's piece claiming that measurements of pre-industrial CO2 were wrong. Now Jim Easter has written a masterful post, detailing twenty-two false or misleading statements made by Jaworowski. Go and read, it's beautiful work....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:26 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2005
Category: Levitt
Steve Levitt has replied to Lott's review of Freakonomics: Now let's talk about John Lott for a minute. Along with John Whitley, he wrote a paper on abortion and crime. It is so loaded with inaccurate claims, errors and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:44 PM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 18, 2005
Category: Global Warming
In a comment to my previous post on Benny Peiser's claim that Naomi Oreskes article on the scientific consensus was wrong, Meyrick made a good case that Peiser had conducted a different search than Oreskes: Think I've finally worked...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:00 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 17, 2005
Category: bobcarter
Last year, global warming denialist Bob Carter wrote a Tech Central Station article where he claimed that satellite measurements show little or no long-term trend of temperature change. I emailed him to point that the satellites actually showed significant...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:20 PM • 63 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 16, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Jim Lindgren agrees with me that the ILCS supports the Lancet study. He also raises some concerns about some of the numbers in Lancet study: I find it somewhat odd that heart attack and stroke deaths are up 64%...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 AM • 261 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2005
Category: meta
People who suffer from Asperger's Syndrome have grave difficulties with social interactions because they have trouble in reading other people's emotions. I recently read an interesting interview with Bram Cohen (the inventor of BitTorrent) who suffers from Asperger's. Which...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:33 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
The results of the Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004 have been published. (Earlier discussion of the study is here.) As Iraqi Minister of Planning Barham Salih said, "This survey shows a rather tragic situation of the quality of life...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:46 PM • 163 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
May 13, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
It's out! The Eighth Skeptics Circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 12, 2005
Category: MaryRosh
Back in 2003 I reported on The Case of the File from the Future, where Lott tried to destroy some incriminating evidence, but did it so ineptly that he made things worse for himself. Well, he's done it again....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
You've met Mary Rosh and maximcl and Washingtonian. Now meet Bob H and Tom H and Sam and Kevin H and Too bad Tim is not very accurate and Gregg. Yes, Lott created a whole army of sockpuppets that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 AM • 28 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
May 11, 2005
Category: MaryRosh
If you use a pseudonym to post a five-star review of your book: More Guns, Less Crime by John Lott Important accurate info that Opponents constantly distort, November 8, 2001 Reviewer: Economist123 - See all my reviews This is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:26 AM • 61 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 10, 2005
Category: Global Warming
In April, New Scientist published a letter from David Bellamy denying global warming and claiming: Indeed, if you take all the evidence that is rarely mentioned by the Kyotoists into consideration, 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:30 PM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2005
Category: meet up
I went to a get together for bloggers in Sydney last night. Writing more about it than I am are Fulmination Dave, Leigh Cartwright, Bourbonbird, an-open-mind, the bed and breakfast man, Misha, Dreadnought and Glen Fuller. Of particular note...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:49 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 6, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Dennis Bray has replied to my post on his study. I am very disapointed in his response. He writes: For the two groups, the 'sceptics' and the 'saviours' there seems to have been equal access. If any one knows...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:58 PM • 76 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
Chris Mooney has some comments on the Peiser/Oreskes dispute about the scientific literature on climate change. I asked Benny Peiser for his list of 34 abstracts that "reject or doubt the view that human activities are the main drivers...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:13 AM • 118 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
May 3, 2005
Category: meta
Oh no! Will the owners of this site be hearing from Tim Blair's lawyers?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:03 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 1, 2005
Category: Global Warming
In a report on a climate change seminar, Bernd Ströher and Benny Peiser write: Particularly revealing were the almost sensational results of a survey conducted by Prof. Bray among some 500 German and European climate researchers. The results show...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:27 PM • 37 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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