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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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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: cherrypicking
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 • patmichaels
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 • patmichaels
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 • patmichaels
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 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
