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...
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...
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...
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")...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...