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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
August 31, 2005
Category: personal
Thanks to everyone who sent congratulations on my 20th wedding anniversary. The traditional gift is china, but Tim Blair sent a flame: Look up "Oh my God I've married an obsessive shrieking hypocrite!" and you'll see a picture of Lambert's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:28 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: McKitrick
The Wall Street Journal has a reputation for publishing excellent news pages and mendacious editorial pages. Now, an investigation by Environmental Science and Technology on an WSJ front page article on McIntyre and McKitrick makes you wonder if the editorial...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:02 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 30, 2005
Category: personal
Love you Carmen....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:43 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Steyn
After falling for an obvious hoax, Mark Steyn has refused to correct his error. Instead he just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole. (My previous posts on this topic: 1 2 3). In his latest effort Steyn...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:11 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2005
Category: More Guns Less Crime
Lott and Dabney have an op-ed in the Washington Times on concealed handguns in the workplace. As usual, Lott misrepresents the state of current research on firearms. Lott and Dabney write: Indeed, international data as well as data from across...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2005
Category: meta
There have been a few people who have used sock puppets on this blog. Note that a sock puppet differs from a pseudonym in that sock puppets are used to deceitfully make it appear that there is more support for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:27 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2005
Category: cherry picking
Over the past few years crime rates in Australia, Canada and England have fallen dramatically. For example, in NSW crime plunged to the lowest level in 20 years, in Canada, the 2003 homicide rate was the lowest in 36 years,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:44 PM • 20 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
August 22, 2005
Category: meta
"Dave Curry", the fellow who sent me a very nasty email and then a nice apology is back, using another sockpuppet to attack me: Lambert was toasted on the Climate Audit website. Lambert is very quick to impugn the motives...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2005
Category: McIntyre
In the discussion on this post, per posted an abusive comment, violating my comment policy. I've had to ban him twice before (see here and here), so I simply banned him again, deleting the offending comment and the few that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:34 PM • 21 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
August 18, 2005
Category: Global Warming
James Annan finally has takers for his bet on global warming. The news was published in Nature, but for those without a subscription, here is the gist of it: James Annan, who is based at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:29 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
The Fifteenth Skeptics' Circle is out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:16 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2005
Category: Global Warming
By now everyone knows that last June the UAH (University of Alabama Huntsville) team led by Roy Spencer and John Christy released updates to their satellite derived lower troposphere temperature trends. These trends, which come from their "TLT" dataset use...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:36 AM • 75 Comments • 4 TrackBacks
August 16, 2005
Category: Steyn
Some of the readers of this Mark Steyn column might have wondered why he seems oddly determined to dispute one date in the 9/11 Commission's time line: they seemed oddly determined to fix June 3, 2000, as the official date...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:20 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 13, 2005
Category: Steyn
Last week the gullible Mark Steyn was busted by Media Watch for basing a column on Johnelle Bryant's crazy story about being visited by Mohammed Atta in early May 2000. She said that Atta threatened to cut her throat and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:46 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 10, 2005
Category: The War on Science
(Via Irant). Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson launched the Australian Science Festival with this: Intelligent design, which is damned by critics as a front for biblical Creationism, argues that life on Earth is too complex to have evolved purely through...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:15 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DDT
Tina Rosenberg's article, What the World Needs Now Is DDT, published in the New York Times last year contains many factual errors about DDT. The errors combine to present a false picture of a world where DDT is a magic...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:35 PM • 13 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
August 9, 2005
Category: Roy Spencer
Long time readers will be aware of what I think of the appalling quality of the writing about science in Tech Central Station. (Examples: Statistics, Fumento, epidemiology physics, economics, more statistics, and more epidemiology. ) Well, they've destroyed any remaining...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:48 AM • 30 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
August 8, 2005
Category: McIntyre
In a comment to post on the Barton letters, Ed Snack claimed that Michael Mann made an error in MBH98, he confused the square root of the cosine of the latitude with the cosine Now if you look at MBH98,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:15 PM • 121 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 7, 2005
Category: astroturf
Barista has more on the history of Spiked. It seems that they have set up another astroturf operation called "Sense about Science", chaired by Dick Taverne....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:17 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 3, 2005
Category: Steyn
Mark Steyn relates a story told by Johnelle Bryant: Bryant is an official with the US Department of Agriculture in Florida, and the late Atta had gone to see her about getting a $US650,000 government loan to convert a plane...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:43 PM • 62 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: survey
Under the title "Academics drag feet on giving out data" Lott quotes extensively from an article about the hockey stick by Steve Milloy. One part Lott doesn't quote is this: Well, a scientist's refusal to provide colleagues with his data...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 1, 2005
Category: stupidity
I wrote earlier about an extraordinarily biased survey conducted by Spiked where they asked scientists what they would teach the world about science if they could pick just one thing. I just noticed this gem of an answer by Stanley...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:56 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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