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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
September 30, 2005
Category: Brignell
The Source Watch wiki page on John Brignell quotes extensively from some of my criticisms of Brignell. Rather than address this criticism, Brignell edited the page to add this comment: What follows is the work of an individual known as...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 AM • 9 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
September 29, 2005
Category: DDT
Senator Inhofe comes in for some well-deserved mocking for inviting novelist Michael Crichton to testify on global warming science. RealClimate has a detailed dissection of Crichton's testimony. I watched the proceedings and learned that as well as believing that global...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:56 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2005
Category: DDT
I've written several posts debunking the myth that using DDT is banned, pointing out that is used in places like South Africa. Now Professor Bunyip has finally discovered this fact and slams Tim Blair for spreading the myth: This item...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 PM • 20 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: meta
David Appell has quit blogging and deleted his blog, Quark Soup. William Connolley writes: it was the first blog I read; perhaps DA somewhat lost his place when other climate-type blogs (RC mainly; perhaps even Stoat) took some of his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:26 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2005
Category: Milloy
William Connolley catches junkscience.com claiming that Global Climate Models can't recreate the temperature record of the 20th century. However, they can and its no secret unless you get your science from junkscience rather than actual scientists....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:23 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Daniel Davies has a new post on Lancet denial, with some particularly egregious examples. The worst example is by Harry of Harry's Place whose "discussion" of the study is to make a statement that he must surely know to be...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:20 PM • 219 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
Read it at decorabilia....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:43 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
In his debate with George Galloway, Christopher Hitchens said: If you really believe the crazed fabrication of the figures of 100,00 deaths in Iraq ... you can simply go to my colleague Fred Kaplan's space on slate.com. He's a very...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:54 PM • 123 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 13, 2005
Category: DDT
The tsunami and Katrina both left behind pools of stagnant water in which things have swarmed and multiplied and emerged to infect humanity. I'm referring, of cause, to clueless articles extolling the virtues of DDT. The latest is by Henry...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 PM • 38 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
September 11, 2005
Category: meta
Tim Blair's blog is notorious because commenters are banned merely for disagreeing with him. However, in this post, Blair accuses Antony Loewenstein of cowardice because Loewenstein would not debate with an abusive phone caller. Blair refuses to accept Loewenstein's stated...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:12 AM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 9, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
MediaLens has a two part article (part 1 part 2) on the shoddy press coverage of the Lancet study. They describe how Mary Dejevsky, senior leader writer on foreign affairs for the Independent dismissed the study because: personally, i think...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:58 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 8, 2005
Category: misc
David Hardy writes: USA Today reports, with customary horror, that 1,700,000 children are in homes with unsecured guns, and that one-third of American homes have firearms in them. It goes on to say 1,400 "children and teens" are shot to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:15 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 7, 2005
Category: Bolt
One of the few things that Andrew Bolt got correct in his original criticism of the Lancet study was the sample size, 988 households: Its researchers interviewed 7868 Iraqis in 988 households in 33 neighbourhoods around Iraq, allegedly chosen randomly,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:35 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 6, 2005
Category: meta
The ancestor of this blog was my archive of Usenet and mail list postings about gun control. I created it in 1996 and updated it fitfully until I started this blog. Now I've folded it into this blog, so you...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:45 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
September 4, 2005
Category: meta
Tim Blair has a post where he has over seventy links to posts by John Quiggin that mention Kyoto. We can conclude that Quiggin is a very careful writer because it looks like Blair didn't find any typos in all...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:08 AM • 82 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 2, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
The 16th Skeptics Circle is here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 1, 2005
Category: Steyn
Mark Steyn gets this email : ARE YOU A CREATIONIST? I enjoy your various articles in the Speccie, torygraph etc and agree with most of what you say and your support for Right views. But I am concerned with your...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:09 PM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
