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

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January 30, 2006

Fumento and cash for comment

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...

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January 28, 2006

Botany Bay, Friday evening

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....

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January 27, 2006

Bogus crime rate comparisons

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...

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The Big Shill

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...

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January 26, 2006

Yet another attempt by Lott to rewrite history

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")...

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January 25, 2006

Lott in NY Times

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...

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January 20, 2006

Fumento: a uniter, not a divider

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...

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I should have picked a catchier title for my blog

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...

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Nieman Reports on Evolution and Global Warming

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...

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January 19, 2006

Julian Simon's DDT deceit

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...

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January 18, 2006

Global Warming Alarmism

Category: Global Warmingpatmichaels

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...

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January 17, 2006

Frogs: Michaels responds

Category: Global Warmingpatmichaels

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...

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January 16, 2006

Wall Street Journal on Lancet study

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...

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January 15, 2006

Pat Michaels on frogs and global warming

Category: Global Warmingpatmichaels

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...

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January 14, 2006

Fumento gets himself fired

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...

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January 11, 2006

Three years old today

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...

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