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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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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: McKitrick
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
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: personal
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
