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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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March 31, 2006
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 AM • 5 Comments
March 29, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:58 AM • 127 Comments
March 28, 2006
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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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:53 AM • 0 Comments
March 27, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:40 AM • 19 Comments
Category: personal
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:02 AM • 5 Comments
March 25, 2006
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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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:02 AM • 4 Comments
March 24, 2006
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:26 PM • 84 Comments
March 22, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 AM • 5 Comments
March 20, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:41 PM • 9 Comments
March 19, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:12 AM • 2 Comments
March 16, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:52 PM • 59 Comments
March 15, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:06 AM • 32 Comments
March 11, 2006
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:23 AM • 4 Comments
March 9, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:38 PM • 47 Comments
March 7, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:58 PM • 39 Comments
March 6, 2006
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 PM • 15 Comments
