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March 31, 2006

Rosenberg writes rubbish about DDT

Category: DDT

Tina Rosenberg, who wrote the hopelessly inaccurate article What the World Needs Now Is DDT, is back with more falsehoods about DDT: The truth is that many malaria victims would be better off if America still had the disease....

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March 29, 2006

The BBC and the Lancet study

Category: LancetIraq

A misleading sidebar on this BBC story on Iraq only presents the IBC count of civilians killed in Iraq (which is guaranteed to be a significant undercount) and omits to mention the Lancet estimate of roughly 100,000 excess deaths. Gabriele...

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March 28, 2006

Mooney seminar at Crooked Timber

Over at Crooked Timber, John Quiggin has organised an on-line seminar on Chris Mooney's War on Science. Lots of interesting reading, including two guest posters: someone called Tim Lambert and Steve Fuller. PZ Myers wasn't real impressed with Fuller's contribution....

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March 27, 2006

Vanguard or Rearguard?

Category: meta

In a Financial Times discussion in new and old media Trevor Butterworth says: Second, the idea that there are hundreds of thousands of "niche experts" blogging away (or ready and willing to blog) lacks empirical evidence. I'm very impressed with...

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Sydney bloggers' picnic

Category: meet up

This Saturday, 1st April in the Royal Botanic Gardens from 1pm. We'll be at the lawn to the east of the Main Pond. Tigtog has some pictures of the location....

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March 25, 2006

This looks like a job for Ben Domenech

One of the less pleasant parts of my job is talking to students that I have caught plagiarizing assignments. All too often, rather than admit to copying they will tell me clumsy lies and blame somebody else. Which brings...

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March 24, 2006

Which Global Warming Skeptic Are You?

Category: McKitrick

You have two 50g containers of cream. One is 10% fat, and the other 20% fat. You combine them. What is the percentage of fat in the mixture? A. 10% of 50 is 5, 20% of 50 is 10....

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March 22, 2006

Peiser admits to making a mistake

Category: Global Warming

Last year Benny Peiser claimed that on a literature search he found 34 papers "reject or doubt" anthropgenic global warming. I posted the abstracts and it's very obvious that he misclassified most of the papers. Peiser left several comments on...

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March 20, 2006

Sock Puppet Theatre

Category: MaryRosh

John Lott keeps trying to use sock puppets to scrub his wikipedia page of criticism. Unfortunately other wikipedia users undo his changes, he makes them again and he gets into an edit war. He's used his socks to try...

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March 19, 2006

Malaria Action Day

Category: DDT

Today is Malaria Action Day. Dunk Malaria are holding a Dunk Malariathon. coturnix is running a linkfest for malaria related posts. My thanks to John Quiggin and Tara Smith for linking to my earlier post and extra thanks to everyone...

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March 16, 2006

Journalists who don't get statistics

Category: LancetIraq

Note for visitors from Daily Kos: 120,000 is an estimate of the number of violent deaths. The total number of extra deaths as a result of the war is very roughly 200,000 once you include the increase in disease and...

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March 15, 2006

Dunk Malaria

Category: DDT

Dunk Malaria is organizing a Malaria Action Day on March 19th, to raise awareness of malaria. The idea is that people net a basketball to symbolize the insecticide treated netting that is the best weapon against malaria. Good. Except that...

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March 11, 2006

Zimmer reviews Global Warming books

Category: Global Warming

Carl Zimmer has reviewed two books on Global Warming: Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers (I dissected some criticism of Flannery's book here) and Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes From a Catastrophe....

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March 9, 2006

DDT: The untold story

Category: DDT

The way the "Rachel Carson was worse than Hitler" folks tell the story, the all-powerful environmentalists were poised to ban DDT at the end of the 90s. For example, here's Tren and Bate's version of the negotiations leading to the...

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March 7, 2006

Why you should study statistics

Category: criminology

Because if you don't you might end up like Tim Blair: Big call from Tim Lambert: "Crime and violent crime in Britain peaked in the early 90s and [have] since plummeted." His source? The British Crime Survey, an annual...

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March 6, 2006

Death Penalty

Category: criminology

When I wrote about David Frum's voodoo criminology in support of the death penalty, I didn't mention any of the recent research that purports to find a deterrent effect for the death penalty because Frum didn't cite it. That research...

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Koufax voting

Category: meta

Voting has started for the Koufax awards. I've been nominated for a Koufax award for Best Single Issue Blog and for Most Deserving of Wider Recognition....

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March 5, 2006

Why does Miranda Devine hate Science?

Category: Global Warming

In her latest rant, Miranda Devine warns about the imminent threat of a take over by scientists: It used to be men in purple robes who controlled us. Soon it will be men in white lab coats. The geeks...

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March 4, 2006

Miranda Devine: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Category: Global Warming

Miranda Devine tells her readers what GIGO means: The outputs are totally dependent on the quality and accuracy of the inputs. At university we had a name for what often happens: GIGO - garbage in garbage out. And then...

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March 3, 2006

Friday cephalopod and sprog blogging

Dr Free-Ride may have Friday sprog blogging and PZ Myers may have his Friday cephalopod, but only here at Deltoid do combine them both! Here's an old picture of one of my kids with a cuttlefish he found on...

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Fractal Fumento

Category: Fumento

After Fumento had been worked over by yours truly, Chris Mooney and PZ Myers, you'd think there would be nothing left, but Steve Reuland has taken just one paragraph from Fumento's column and found as many mistakes as I found...

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March 2, 2006

Link fest

Category: Fumento

Chris Mooney and PZ Myers complete the demolition of Fumento's article that I started here. Sir Oolius also got stuck in and managed to get one of Fumento's characteristically lame comebacks. Inspired by my post mentioning co-authorship chains with...

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March 1, 2006

The Hosue of Blair

Category: criminology

Tim Blair links to some interesting articles in this week's Bulletin. First up is a page on John Howard with the intriguing title "The hosue of Howard". It's a fearless, hard hitting complete suck up to Howard. Apparently, after a...

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Job Opening

Category: funny

Do you think I should apply for this job?...

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