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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
October 30, 2005
Category: bobcarter
The Australian reported: THE debate on climate change is over. As far as the Howard Government is concerned, Australians must accept that humans contribute to global warming and adapt their behaviour to save the planet. Emerging from a bush walk...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:21 AM • 131 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 29, 2005
Category: McKitrick
Eli Rabbett has encountered Essex and McKitrick's briefing about their book Taken by Storm (which I criticised here) and is not impressed: with so many dubious claims that one hardly knows where to begin....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
See it at The Uncredible Hallq....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:39 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Les Roberts comments on the shoddy reporting of his study: I thought the press saw their job as reporting information. Most of the pieces discussing our report were written to control or influence society, not to relay what our report...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:34 PM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DDT
Correspondence on the paper "Agricultural production and malaria resurgence in Central America and India" Nature Vol 294 26 November 1981 pages 302,388...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DDT
There were some letters written to Nature by malariologists disputing Chapin and Wasserstrom's paper that argued that agricultural use of DDT was the major factor in the resurgence of malaria in India and Central America. Before I write about the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:27 PM • 2 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
October 25, 2005
Category: meta
Via Pharyngula I find the commissar's project to make a blog family tree. your blogfather, or blogmother, as the case may be. Marie Gryphon who was the first blogger to post on the the John Lott affair. I started this...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:22 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 24, 2005
Category: MaryRosh
The John Lott article at Wikipedia was unprotected and the edit war has restarted. Lott is using a sockpuppet called Timewarp to try to make massive changes to the article. Some of the additions he wants to make are interesting:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:56 PM • 12 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 22, 2005
Category: Fumento
Michael Fumento has responded to my post way back in January demolishing his foolish proposal that after the tsunami: DDT should be sprayed on water pools, tents, and on people themselves---as indeed was once common in Sri Lanka and throughout...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:33 PM • 27 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: DDT
John Bruton, the EU ambassador to the US responds to Mallaby's clueless DDT boosting piece. In his Oct. 10 op-ed column, "Look Who's Ignoring Science Now," Sebastian Mallaby suggested that European regulations are to blame for the misery in Uganda...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:52 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
October 21, 2005
Category: DDT
Extracts from "Should DDT continue to be recommended for malaria vector control?" by C. F. Curtis published in Medical and Veterinary Entomology (1994) 8, 107--112...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:44 PM • 7 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 20, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Seixon is no great shakes with statistics, but he sure can do things with a metaphor: I swear, commenting on this blog is like a game of hide-and-seek with the elephant somewhere in the room. Lambert and his friends giggle...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:36 AM • 121 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 18, 2005
Category: politics
If you are interested in serious discussion of the Australian government's proposed new "anti-terrorist" laws, you should read the posts by Senator Andrew Bartlett, Mark Bahnisch, Ken Parish and Tim Dunlop. One place where you won't find it is on...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 17, 2005
Category: Bolt
Andrew Bolt has responded to Tim Flannery's correction of some Bolt's egregious errors. Bolt's primary tactic in his criticism of Flannery is to go out of his way to misinterpret Flannery's writing and then when Flannery corrects the misinterpretation to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
All kinds of action over at the Wikipedia page on John Lott, with someone using the handle "Timewarp" starting an edit war that has led to the page being temporarily protected from changes to encourage Timewarp to discuss the changes...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:52 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 14, 2005
Category: Milloy
Andrew Kenny in The Spectator writes Judged on sheer evil, the worst crime in history was brown, the Nazi genocide, although the reds slaughtered more people. The death toll (difficult to measure) is roughly, Hitler's holocaust 6 million, Stalin's famine...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:15 PM • 95 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
Category: DDT
Extracts from "Agricultural production and malaria resurgence in Central America and India" by Georganne Chapin and Robert Wasserstrom published in Nature Vol 293 17 September 1981 pages 181--185 Among the inhabitants of Asia, Latin America and tropical Africa malaria, remains...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:00 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
Get your skeptical blogging at Time to lean....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:27 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 10, 2005
Category: DDT
Sebastian Mallaby's article in the Washington Post has all the hallmarks of the clueless DDT-boosting article. The only expert mentioned is not a malariologist but comes from some right-wing think tank. In this case it's Roger Bate. Nowhere is mentioned...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 9, 2005
Category: Bolt
Tim Flannery has a new book The Weather Makers on climate change. You can read an extract here. Naturally this has prompted the usual pieces on how global warming totally isn't happening. First we have William Kininmonth, who writes: The...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:35 AM • 28 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 8, 2005
Category: computers
The Sydney Morning Herald reports The High Court Computer games enthusiasts are free to modify their Playstations to run cheap games bought overseas or online, following a landmark High Court ruling. The court found that "mod-chips"- used to override technology...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 2, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
In an earlier post I observed that "Seixon does not understand sampling". Seixon removed any doubt about this with his comments on that post and two more posts. Despite superhuman efforts to explain sampling to him by several qualified people...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:45 PM • 224 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 1, 2005
Category: Skeptics Circle
At Wolverine Tom....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:08 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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