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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
February 28, 2006
Category: Fumento
In Fumento's latest article he accuses the leading science journals of delivering "Political Science". His examples are a mixture of genuine problems discovered by others (like the Korean stem cell fraud) and bogus problems "discovered" by Fumento. Like this:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:44 PM • 12 Comments •
February 27, 2006
Category: McIntyre
I wrote earlier about McIntyre's attack on the NAS Panel on temperature reconstructions. McIntyre objected to two panelists because they were co-authors of co-authors of Mann, but not to the panelist who was a co-author of a co-author of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:23 AM • 164 Comments •
February 26, 2006
Category: meta
Welcome William Connolley's Stoat to the ScienceBlogs federation. He's not in the combined feed yet, but I imagine that will be fixed soon....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:35 AM • 3 Comments •
February 24, 2006
Category: meta
I've been nominated for a Koufax award for Best Single Issue Blog and for Most Deserving of Wider Recognition. Voting hasn't started yet, but there all kinds of interesting blogs on those lists, so here's a chance to find an...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:28 AM • 3 Comments •
February 23, 2006
Category: Fumento
Cathy Young disagrees with the Iain Murray/Tom Giovenetti line on cash for comment: Sadly, some conservatives are now defending the practice of opinion writers serving as hired guns (hired quills?) for business and lobbying interests. Among others, Iain Murray...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:38 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: meta
Since 99% of the trackbacks I have been getting were spam, I have turned them off. If you link to one of my posts, just leave a comment linking back to your post. Sorry for the inconvenience....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:07 AM • 7 Comments •
February 22, 2006
Category: safe-storage
Terence is justifiably annoyed that his tax dollars are being spent on having John Lott give a keynote speech on firearms safety at a conference in New Zealand. Lott is going to claim that safe storage laws increase crime....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:26 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Last week I wrote about how the Australian government was gagging scientists from expressing mainstream science views on global warming. Garth Paltridge has responded with a claim that global warming skeptics get gagged as well. From the Feb 22...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:02 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: politics
Here's Silas standing in front of one of the ports that have been sold to Dubai Port World. Don't worry, he'll protect us from the terrorists! Unless they gave him food or something. See Dennis the Peasant or Kevin Drum...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:23 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Last week I wrote about the greenhouse mafia in Australia. This week, Clive Hamilton has named the "dirty dozen", the twelve people who have worked together to mislead Australians about climate change. The Age reports: Speaking at the Australia-New Zealand...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:07 AM • 9 Comments •
February 21, 2006
Category: meta
I've turned on the requirement that you have to provide an email address when leaving a comment. If that stops you from commenting the fix is to delete the cookies you have from scienceblogs. PZ Meyers has more on this...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:42 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Brignell
Last year I wrote how John Brignell repeatedly tried to add untrue claims to the Sourcewatch article on Brignell because it was critical of him. Now he is complaining about his Wikipedia article: Anyway, reading hostile critiques of one's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:24 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: DDT
Tim Worstall reports that James Lovelock (who I criticised earlier for his global warming alarmism) has fallen for the myth that the use of DDT against malaria is banned. In his new book Lovelock writes: "insecticides badly needed controlling, but...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2006
Category: DDT
Steve Forbes writes: There is a simple, time-proven way to virtually eradicate malaria: the judicious use of DDT. Extremist environmentalists have cowed health officials into never even considering the use of DDT. We are not talking about the large-scale, indiscriminate...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:58 AM • 7 Comments •
February 19, 2006
Category: meet up
On Saturday, I showed to a bloggers meet up organized by Suki and Susoz. Also attending were weez, Flashman, Morgan and tigtog. We decided that a bloggers' picnic would be fun, so, if you're in Sydney on Saturday April 1st,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 AM • 4 Comments •
February 18, 2006
Category: Fumento
Good old Mike Fumento has another go at Javers: In the one instance we know of, the DC firm Patton Boggs and others invited Javers to play on the highly exclusive Bretton Woods golf course. I would guess that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:09 AM • 4 Comments •
February 16, 2006
Category: McKitrick
Hockey stick wars, the story so far: McIntyre and McKitrick (M&M) first claimed that the hockey stick graph was the product of "collation errors, unjustifiable truncations of extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculations of principal...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:00 PM • 91 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
The 28th Skeptic's Circle is your one source for skeptical blogging....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:27 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: politics
Test yourself: can you detect what is dishonest about this argument in a Mirada Devine column about RU486 published in the Sydney Morning Herald today: And, despite the hype about a gender divide in the Senate last week, about the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:09 AM • 3 Comments •
February 15, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Pat Michaels is notorious for lying about the predictions that James Hansen made in testimony before Congress in 1988. In his paper Hansen showed the results of three possible scenarios, but in his testimony before congress Hansen only showed...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:27 AM • 10 Comments •
February 14, 2006
Category: McKitrick
Eli Rabett is working his way through Taken By Storm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this work, it's a global warming denial book which contains some spectacularly Bad Physics, with the authors claiming that average temperature...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:55 AM • 37 Comments •
February 13, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Four Corners has aired a story "The Greenhouse Mafia". Guy Pearse relates how industry lobbyists boasted how they wrote ministerial briefings, costings and cabinet submissions for the government, even though this is an obvious conflict of interest. And several...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:59 AM • 27 Comments •
February 10, 2006
Category: Fumento
We previously encountered Tom Giovenetti, president of the IPI think tank when he told me that IPI keeps its funders secret: Second, regarding whether we take money from Microsoft, IPI has an absolute policy of protecting our donors' privacy. I'm...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:00 PM • 10 Comments •
February 9, 2006
Category: meta
Tim Blair reckons that Australian "leftoid" bloggers are losers. Why? Blair has discovered that those bloggers sometimes make mistakes!. For example, David Heidelberg mistook a spoof of Pajamas Media for the real thing, while Chris Sheil made a spelling...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 42 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 7, 2006
Category: misc
In the comments to Lott's post where he failed to notice that the study on guns and road rage reported a multi-variate regression in table 1, someone asked him about my post pointing out his mistake. Lott's response: I haven't...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:35 AM • 37 Comments •
February 6, 2006
Category: Iraq
In May, last year I summarized the good news about Iraqi reconstruction: Due to lack of maintenance, electricity production fell from 9000 MW in 1991 to 4400 MW before the war. Since then, there have been many announcements of improved...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:55 AM • 26 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: Fumento
The pro-payola people have launched a lame counter attack on Javers. Before we begin, note that even if they could prove Javers guilty of some wrong-doing, it would not mean that Fumento was not guilty of unethical behaviour. Anyway, Fumento...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:06 AM • 4 Comments •
February 5, 2006
Category: misc
New Scientist reports: A survey of 2400 drivers carried out by David Hemenway and his colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that motorists who carry guns in their cars are far more likely to indulge in road...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:40 AM • 10 Comments •
February 4, 2006
Category: Fumento
Iain Murray, comes out with an article in the American Spectator in favour of pundit payola: An opinion piece -- whether an individual op-ed or a column -- exists to promote a point of view by argument. It does...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:49 AM • 5 Comments •
February 2, 2006
Category: Fumento
Mike Hudson gets a whole column out of an exchange with Fumento: I decided to e-mail Fumento and gloat about his descent into ignominy. I told him that, given his positions on Love Canal and Gulf War Syndrome, it wasn't...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:19 AM • 50 Comments •
February 1, 2006
Category: Fumento
In 1987 Zhang JianDong published a study linking chromium-6 in drinking water to cancer. In 1997 he published a new study retracting his findings --- further analysis showed that chromium-6 wasn't to blame. All part of the normal progress...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:19 AM • 9 Comments •
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