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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
April 29, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Iraq Body Count has published a defence against some of the criticism they have been receiving. The Lancet study implies that there are about five times as many Iraqi deaths as the IBC number. They do not accept this and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:50 PM • 78 Comments •
April 28, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
The BBC has a report on the dispute between the IBC and Media Lens about Iraqi casualties. (My previous post on this is here.) IBC's John Sloboda trots out Kaplan's fallacy: Some critics of the Lancet study have said it's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 12 Comments •
April 27, 2006
Category: Skeptics Circle
Your 33rd Skeptics Circle has been compiled by coturnix. Now with added abstract!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:36 AM • 4 Comments •
April 26, 2006
Category: DDT
Here is Colby Cosh's response to the UN foundation's appeal to buy insecticide-treated nets to fight malaria: Africans aren't helpless animals--they know what works against malaria. Unfortunately, what works against malaria is DDT. But any country that proposes a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:21 PM • 50 Comments •
April 24, 2006
Cyclone Monica is heading for Darwin (which was devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. Ken Parish is getting out of town. Fingers crossed for Darwin and Darwinites. Update: It was category 5 at landfall, but fortunately it was down to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:40 AM • 5 Comments •
April 23, 2006
Category: bobcarter
James Annan writes about two programmes on the BBC. First, a good one on overselling climate change. I think that what gave the programme credibility was that they didn't talk to any of the global warming skeptics. RealClimate also...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:44 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: DDT
Alicia Colon has written the usual rubbish about how Rachel Carson killed millions of people (see DDT ban myth bingo for corrections to the stuff she gets wrong). After claiming that DDT is banned she writes: Within two years of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:06 PM • 21 Comments •
April 22, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Remember the letter from the 60 scientists denying that "climate change is real" meant anything? Now 90 scientists have written another letter stating: There is increasingly unambiguous evidence of changing climate in Canada and around the world. There will be...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 39 Comments •
April 21, 2006
Via Patterico I find that Howard Kurtz has reported on Hiltzik's use of a sock puppet: The Los Angeles Times suspended the blog of one of its top columnists last night, saying he violated the paper's policy by posting derogatory...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:40 AM • 9 Comments •
April 20, 2006
Category: Levitt
David Glenn's article get discussed by Henry Farrell (lots of comments there), Ted Frank and King. Lott finally mentions the lawsuit on his blog. No comments there, so far....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:35 PM • 2 Comments •
Patterico catches LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik using a couple of sock puppets. Hiltzik admitted making the posts but denied that they were deceptive. I disagree. It is not deceptive to use a pseudonym, but it is deceitful to have...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:42 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Levitt
David Glenn has a stellar article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Lott's lawsuit. (Free access only for five days.) Glenn writes:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Levitt
More interesting analysis of Lott's lawsuit from Ted Frank. First, after looking at the examples of the use of "replicate" he concludes: I appear to have been too generous to Lott's complaint when I first criticized it. Then Ben Zycher,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:20 AM • 1 Comments •
April 19, 2006
Category: meta
Since everyone else here was putting up banners, I created a banner for my blog. The text and figure come from Chapter 8 (The Deltoid) of EH Lockwood's A Book of Curves (1961). It was on sale for $1 at...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:26 PM • 3 Comments •
April 18, 2006
Category: Levitt
William Ford has two interesting posts analysing the key premise of Lott's lawsuit: that "replicate" can only mean to analyse exactly the same data in exactly the same way. He looks at the scientific literature on the meaning of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:08 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: meta
Science has published an article urging more environmental scientists to take up blogging. Nick Anthis has a summary. The article gives examples of "excellent, informative sites": Mark Lynas, RealClimate, Climate Science, James' Empty Blog, DeSmogBlog, Prometheus, Science At Stake, ScienceBlogs,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:25 PM • 1 Comments •
April 17, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Mark Hertsgaard has an excellent article in Vanity Fair exposing the war on climate science. For instance: Call him the $45 million man. That's how much money Dr. Frederick Seitz, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences, helped...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:23 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
About a hundred Internet years ago in 1988 I posted this comment on Usenet: Waste heat does not contribute significantly to global warming. It is all (if it's really happening - we probably won't be sure until it's too...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:41 AM • 126 Comments •
April 16, 2006
Category: bobcarter
Bob Carter's fraudulent claim that global warming ended in 1998 seems to have been swallowed uncritically by lots of gullible global warming skeptics. Jim at Our Word is our Weapon plays whack a mole with a couple of them, Madsen...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 PM • 35 Comments •
April 15, 2006
Category: Levitt
Here's an interesting timeline: 31 March: Lott's abrupt departure from the American enterprise institute. 10 April: Lott files his lawsuit alleging that Levitt has defamed him. 12 April: First Anniversary of Freakonomics publication. I think all three events are...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 AM • 4 Comments •
April 14, 2006
Category: meta
Online Journalism has an article about ScienceBlogs. I get quoted a couple of times....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:08 PM • 1 Comments •
April 13, 2006
Category: Skeptics Circle
All kinds of interesting posts at the Skeptics' Circle number 32....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:33 AM • •
April 12, 2006
Category: Levitt
Ted Frank has your must read blog post on Lott's lawsuit against Levitt. He has a copy of the complaint and an explanation from Lott: When a book sells well over a million copies this goes beyond a mere...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:57 AM • 43 Comments •
Category: misc
Ever since Lott started at the American Enterprise Institute there have been people there who have wanted to get rid of him. I was forwarded a copy of Lott's final email to AEI staff. It suggests that he was...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:43 AM • 12 Comments •
April 11, 2006
Category: Levitt
The Chicago Tribune reports: A scholar known for his work on guns and crime filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt, co-author of the best-seller "Freakonomics." John Lott Jr. of Virginia, a former U. of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:18 PM • 32 Comments •
April 10, 2006
Category: misc
Someone edited John Lott's wikipedia entry to state that he left AEI in 2006. Sure enough, he is no longer included on the AEI's list of scholars and fellows. The person who made the edit was anonymous, but the IP...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:28 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Global Warming
Jennifer Marohasy has written a rather self-referential response to my criticism of the sixty scientists' letter. Rather than deal with the substance of my criticism, Marohasy, who works for the Institute of Public Affairs, predictably tried to attack my credibility,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:06 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
One of the features of the generally shoddy reporting of Iraqi casualties in the media is the way that if reporters mention the Lancet study they will mention the bogus controversy about it, while the Iraq Body Count number is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:17 PM • 101 Comments •
April 9, 2006
Category: bobcarter
Bob Carter has a piece in the Telegraph where he claims: For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:44 AM • 157 Comments •
April 8, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Six Australian business leader reckon that the debate is over and climate change is real: Six business leaders yesterday stepped into the greenhouse debate, and blew the whistle. Game over, they said: climate change is real, it's going to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:11 PM • 156 Comments •
April 6, 2006
Category: politics
Tim Blair grasps at a straw, I mean perfume sprayer: Frank Gaffney is interviewed by the ABC's Tony Jones, who confidently deploys the "Saddam had no WMD" argument: TONY JONES: Except for the fact as it turns out -- I'm...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:09 PM • 14 Comments •
April 5, 2006
Category: Milloy
Steve Milloy has made a special appeal to his supporters: I helped launch the Free Enterprise Action Fund (www.FreeEnterpriseActionFund.com), a pioneering mutual fund designed to accomplish two goals for investors: Earn a market-based financial return from investing in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:43 PM • 8 Comments •
April 4, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Blogger dav wrote to RTE (Ireland's Public Service Broadcaster) to correct their misleading reporting of Iraqi casualties: Today's Six One news reports that the death toll in Iraq as a result of invasion is estimated at between 34 and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:38 PM • 8 Comments •
April 2, 2006
Category: DDT
In 1972 the US banned the agricultural use of DDT, but did not ban its use against malaria. Other countries followed suit. The ban on the agricultural use of DDT has probably saved many lives by slowing the development...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:37 PM • 20 Comments •
April 1, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Nicholas Davies has an article Estimating civilian deaths in Iraq - six surveys in Online Journal. Critics often point to the Iraq Body Count and the Iraq living conditions survey as contradicting the Lancet study when they do not. Davies...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:53 AM • 56 Comments •
Category: personal
There were some ominous black clouds and it was pretty windy and I had to take my youngest to the doctor because he was throwing up all over the place, but I made it to the picnic, even if it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:39 AM • 3 Comments •
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