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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
November 30, 2005
Category: Fumento
SayUncle blogged on Fumento's use of sock puppets: Mike Fumento, who I've talked about before, poked fun at us insignificant blogs before starting his own. He also acted like a prick in an exchange between himself and Rich Hailey. Now,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:07 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2005
Category: DDT
In Tech Central Station (where else?) global warming skeptic Roy Spencer spreads the DDT hoax: The whole DDT issue is a good example of stupid environmental policy. Insiders say the de facto ban on DDT was the result of politics,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:25 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2005
Category: Brignell
Bob Carroll learns from Chis Mooney about the relative risk scam. He writes I owe an apology to readers of this newsletter. In April 2004, I wrote the first of several commentaries on Penn & Teller's claim in a Bullshit!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:33 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
Little known fact: 22 is the smallest prime that can be formed from the product of smaller primes in four different ways (7x3, 3x7, and 7x1x3). Anyway, check out the 22nd skeptics circle....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:32 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2005
Category: DDT
The latest stunt from Africa Fighting Malaria is a petition advocating policies that would cripple the United States efforts against malaria. The petition asks that Congress and the President Ensure that at least 2/3 (two-thirds) of annual Congressional appropriations for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:47 PM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
November 21, 2005
Category: McKitrick
Eli Rabett dissects Essex and McKitrick's incompetence with averages: Unfortunately, either Essex or McKitrick or both do not understand zero and negative numbers. You know where my money is. Read his post to see why. Mind you, Steve McIntyre isn't...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:16 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2005
Category: Fumento
Somebody with IP address 69.143.188.141 has been doing John Lott style edits to Michael Fumento's Wikipedia page. For instance, this person removed the link to my criticism of Fumento. By a strange coincidence 69.143.188.141 just happens to be the IP...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:18 AM • 8 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
November 19, 2005
Category: Global Warming
Iain Murray finally admits to the existence of anthropogenic global warming: When I began working on global warming issues several years ago I was firmly of the belief that it was stuff and nonsense. As the scientific facts became clearer,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 AM • 21 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
November 18, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Monbiot's article on the Lancet study drew this letter from Gil Elliot: On the strength of having calculated war deaths around the globe over the past century, I can inform George Monbiot (The media are minimising US and British war...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:42 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: McIntyre
A couple of readers have gotten an error message like this when they try to access my blog: Precondition Failed We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for / on this server. We have established rules for access...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:42 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Fumento
Last month Tracy Spenser posted this comment on my blog: Looks like Fumento has made a fool of you again? When are you ever going to learn? www.fumento.com/weblog/ar www.townhall.com/blogs/c- And when are you going to stop encouraging a policy of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:16 AM • 6 Comments • 8 TrackBacks
November 17, 2005
Category: meta
Congratulations to z, who posted the 10,000th comment here: Says here, change in total (internal) energy U is defined in terms of temperature T, pressure P, volume V and entropy S as dU=TdS-PdV or T=(dU+PdV)/dS ... My thanks to everyone...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:59 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Milloy
Rolling Stone has published a major feature on global warming. Steve Milloy was mentioned as one the chief anti-science guys in the debate, so he has a column in Fox news trotting out all the usual tired old discredited arguments:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:17 AM • 23 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
November 16, 2005
Category: DDT
This editorial from Africa Fighting Malaria contains the usual misleading statements about what happened in South Africa and the usual false claim about the EU threatening to ban imports from Uganda. But it adds this attack on Bayer: The obstacles...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:20 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: DDT
Kent R. Hill, assistant administrator, Bureau of Global Health, USAID, corrects yet another ignorant claim that USAID won't fund DDT spraying: Paul Driessen's opinion article titled "USAID Could Stop This Epidemic" (Nov. 2) misrepresents the U.S. Agency for International Development's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:06 AM • 3 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
November 15, 2005
Category: links
Andrew Chang writes a lettter to the Vancouver Sun which published a Lott editorial full of his usual cooked numbers. Chang also links to an old Usenet thread where he, Mary Rosh and I were involved. Oddly enough, Lott and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2005
Category: Bolt
The Australian government's conclusion that the climate change debate is over has prompted a column from Andrew Bolt, who insists that there is to a big debate still going on. Bolt writes: Just look at the big Greenhouse 2005 conference...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:28 PM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
The edit war on the Wikipedia article on John Lott has continued. Lott has now tried changing the page to his preferred version almost 50 times. The trouble he has encountered is that since his changes are so unreasonable at...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 12, 2005
Category: meta
Currently comments to posts are shown in descending order (most recent comment first). Do you like this, or do you prefer that they appear in the conventional ascending order? And while I'm asking, is there anything else about the presentation...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:36 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2005
Category: McKitrick
Eli Rabett continues to try to puzzle out the weird statements about temperature in Taken by Storm: Reading the several versions of Essex and McKitrick anyone familiar with thermodynamics (heat engines, blackbodies, chemical reactions, etc.) will start to scratch their...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:31 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
Little known fact: 21 is the smallest prime that can be formed from the product of smaller primes in four different ways (7x3, 3x7, and 7x1x3). Anyway, the 21st skeptics circle is here. Check it out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:37 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta
T-SAW, who emailed Tim Blair: I saw your post about the proposed celebration at the Bellevue on Friday and your attendance along with that of some other wingnuts. Well I thought in the interests of community spirit that I'd...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:09 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
George Monbiot blasts the pathetic media for their lazy and incompetent reporting of deaths in Iraq Hitchens Watch catches Christopher Hitchens citing the Lancet study of deaths in Darfur as a "reliable estimate" after calling the Lancet study of deaths...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:44 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
Lenin points to some complete innumeracy at the BBC as they make excuses for not using the Lancet estimate. They write: We do not usually use the Lancet's figure in standard news stories because it is so far out of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:40 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 6, 2005
Category: misc
Todd Zywicki links to Lott's take on Alito. Lott cites a study by Choi and Gulati but gets taken to task in comments by Frank Cross who writes: Perhaps unsurprisingly, this review by John Lott is quite misleading. Under Choi...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:09 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 2, 2005
Category: computers
A couple of my students have created a cool web page that lets you create beautiful lace patterns with a few clicks of a mouse. Well, pictures of lace patterns, but you can print out instructions for crocheting them....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 1, 2005
Category: LancetIraq
This American Life has a fascinating show on the Lancet study and why the news coverage of it was so pathetic. Worth listening to. In it, another Lancet critic, Marc Garlasco recants: I'm not a statistician---I know absolutely nothing about...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 AM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
Lott has drafted yet another cherry-picked article where he pretends that crime in Australia is increasing despite plummeting crime rates here. Jonathan Dursi takes it apart....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:22 AM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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