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Tim Lambert Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.

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April 29, 2006

IBC takes on the Lancet study

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...

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April 28, 2006

IBC vs Media Lens on Iraq Casualties

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...

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April 27, 2006

33rd Skeptic's Circle

Category: Skeptics Circle

Your 33rd Skeptics Circle has been compiled by coturnix. Now with added abstract!...

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April 26, 2006

Matt McIntosh is too kind to Colby Cosh

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...

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April 24, 2006

Cyclone Monica heading for Darwin

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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...

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April 23, 2006

Curate's egg from the BBC

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...

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Mozambique and DDT

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...

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April 22, 2006

The Climate Scientists Strike Back

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...

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April 21, 2006

Hiltzik sock puppet update

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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...

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April 20, 2006

Lott vs Levitt: around the blogs

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....

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More sock puppetry

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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...

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Chronicle on Lott vs Levitt

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:...

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Ted Frank on Lott vs Levitt

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,...

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April 19, 2006

New Banner

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...

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April 18, 2006

What does "replicate" mean?

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...

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Science advocates blogging

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,...

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