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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
January 30, 2006
Category: Fumento
Fumento has written a reply to Cathy Seipp's article. Mostly he whines about how mean Seipp was. The only substantive bit is this: Read the Business Week piece. It takes three whole minutes. Nowhere does it say I took...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:44 PM • 1 Comments •
January 28, 2006
Category: personal
What could be more science bloggy than a place with a science in its name? So here's Silas and Justin in Botany Bay....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:07 AM • 4 Comments •
January 27, 2006
Category: cherry picking
Jonathon Dursi details the spread of a bogus comparison between crime rate in US in Canada from John Lott to David Frum to Alan Gottlieb: So here's the path of the lie as far as I can see it: Aug...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:03 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Milloy
It's long been public knowledge that Steve Milloy's junkscience site was funded by tobacco companies to attack the science linking cigarette smoke with lung cancer. Last year Mother Jones reported: Industry defenders shelled [Arctic Climate Assessment] study, and, with a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 AM • 6 Comments •
January 26, 2006
Category: More Guns Less Crime
I've discovered another one of John Lott's attempts to rewrite history. Read on. Lott has written a response to Kevin Drum's summary of Lott's model changing antics. Here's Drum: 1. Lott and two coauthors produced a statistical model ("Model 1")...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 6 Comments •
January 25, 2006
Category: misc
Kevin Drum is is dismayed that theNew York Times has published an op-ed by John Lott: I note that the New York Times has published a piece by John Lott today and I just have to ask: what is Lott...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:16 PM • 3 Comments •
January 20, 2006
Category: Fumento
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting with delicious anticipation to see what Fumento's defence would be after he got fired by Scripps-Howard. Fumento does not disappoint. Why did he not disclose that Monsanto had paid him $60,000...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: meta
because then maybe it would have been mentioned in the New York Times: Seed Media, which produces science publications in print and online, is seeking to broaden its audience - and its appeal to advertisers - by introducing on Monday...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:24 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
The Winter 2005 issue of the Nieman Reports has many articles about the news coverage of Evolution and Global Warming. Both topics, of course, are ill served by the tradition of "he said, she said" which gives undue prominence to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:11 AM • 1 Comments •
January 19, 2006
Category: DDT
Last year I posted about The Great DDT Hoax, the fake story of how DDT had all but eliminated malaria in Sri Lanka until evil enviros banned its use. Most of the people repeating this hoax were just part of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:35 PM • 24 Comments •
January 18, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Pat Michaels says that Kyoto would destroy the US economy: In a nutshell, that's why the European governments are so exercised about Bush's "no" to Kyoto. They see it as an international instrument that would destroy the economy of their...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:13 AM • 36 Comments •
January 17, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Pat Michaels has responded to my post pointing out several errors in his post about frog extinctions: It has subsequently been pointed out to us that the points on our Figure 1 (Pounds et al. Figure 4c) are not actually...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:20 PM • 2 Comments •
January 16, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
I missed this when it first came out, but Carl Bialik has written excellent summary of the issues in the Wall Street Journal. Researchers concluded that about 100,000 more Iraqis had died outside Fallujah since the invasion than would have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:22 AM • 4 Comments •
January 15, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Carl Zimmer has a useful summary of the recent Nature paper that links global warming with frog extinctions. Brian Schmidt comments: I was curious about the fact that none of the climate-focused bloggers on my blog roll had written...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:26 PM • 15 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 14, 2006
Category: Fumento
When I criticised Michael Fumento's innumerate writing about the Lancet study he responded with this: You can blog all you want, but my next column is also on this. It goes out to over 350 newspapers Not any more: Scripps...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:26 PM • 12 Comments •
January 13, 2006
Category: meta
This is my last post ever here. My blog has moved to http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/ where I will join some fantastic bloggers at ScienceBlogs. The new RSS feed is http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/index.xml. You can now read my first post at the new blog....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 11, 2006
Category: meta
My blog turns three today. It started as a webpage that I updated daily on the John Lott affair. (To my mind, at least, this was different from a blog.) It's been through several changes of blogging software and host...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:00 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
John Fleck discovers that Benny Peiser's ability to understand papers in climate research hasn't improved since last year: So I wrote [the paper's author] and asked if he felt their work supported a solar explanation for the warming of the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:59 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Michael Schwartz writes about the rules of engagement in Iraq: A little over a year ago, a group of Johns Hopkins researchers reported that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a result of the Iraq war during its first...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:00 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 10, 2006
Category: cherry picking
In Lott's latest column he cuts and pastes his previous cherry picking on England, so I'll just repeat my correction: He carefully picks his numbers to avoid mentioning the dramatic decline in violent crime in England since 1996. As for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 9, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Richard Miniter article Via Section 15's comments....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:55 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LancetIraq
Andrew Cockburn reports on an analysis of the raw Lancet data by Pierre Sprey who used a non-parametric method (so it was not necessary to exclude Falluja) and found: "So, applying that simple notion to the death rates before and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:20 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 8, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Tim Blair professes not to give a damn about global warming but also reckons it a scam and has over twenty rather confused posts in just the last month attacking the concept. In his latest post he seems to think...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:19 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 7, 2006
Category: DDT
One of the features of the endless stream of articles about the nonexistent DDT ban is the way they all cite each other instead of cracking open a textbook or checking with an actual scientist. I call this the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:37 AM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta
Could some kind reader send me (lambert-AT-cse.unsw.edu.au) a copy of this article: J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2003 Jul 25;66(14):1295-339. Human health risk and exposure assessment of chromium (VI) in tap water. Paustenbach DJ, Finley BL, Mowat FS, Kerger BD....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 6, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
John Allen Paulos writes about Iraqi war deaths: Another figure in the news recently has been the number of Iraqis killed in the war. President Bush mentioned last month that in addition to the more than 2,100 American soldiers killed...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptics Circle
Get the latest skeptical blogging here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:05 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MaryRosh
New Scientist has an article on sock puppets (subscription required): IF YOU thought sock puppets were made merely for the amusement of small children, think again. In cyberspace, a sock puppet is a vandal's alter ego, an additional account that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 5, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Peter Gleick argues that global warming skeptics are practising pseudo-science because no matter how much evidence piles up for warming, their position does not change. John Quiggin says that the latest evidence ends the scientific debate. Evidence for this can...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:47 PM • 89 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 4, 2006
Category: meta
It would be crass to post a top ten list where your own blog was number one. But if you posted a list where some other blog was number one and then that other blog returned the favour, well, that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:55 AM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: meet up
Flashman has declared Jan 28 to be Grogblogging 3 night. I plan to be there. In true blogging style, a controversy about the location has already broken out....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:28 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
January 3, 2006
Category: McKitrick
Eli Rabett has scored Essex and McKitrick's briefing for Taken By Storm at Global Warming Skeptic Bingo. Alas, they don't win. I reckon their book will do better. For example, they get another box at bingo with this passage (from...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:57 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
