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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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October 31, 2006
Category: Global Warming
Tim Blair writes: Consider the tragic environmental cost: I had a strange experience on Monday. I went to see Al Gore's slide show, as he affectionately refers to An Inconvenient Truth, his exposé on global warming. For the first...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:18 PM • 13 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
The BBC did not publish all of Les Roberts' answers. Here are the rest: It seems the Lancet has been overrun by left-wing sixth formers. The report has a flawed methodology and deceit is shown in the counting process. What...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:45 AM • 68 Comments
October 30, 2006
Category: Bolt • Global Warming
In 2004, Naomi Oreskes looked at a sample of 928 papers in refereed scientific journals and found that not one disagreed with the scientific consensus: that humans are responsible for most of the warming in the last few decades. Benny...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:57 PM • 29 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
The BBC has Les Robert's answers to questions sent in by readers. Some extracts: A research team have asserted in an article in Science that the second Lancet study is seriously flawed due to "main street bias." We worked hard...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:16 PM • 2 Comments
October 27, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
This is a talk about the methodology of the 2004 study, but most of it applies to the new study as well. It's 46 minutes long....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:59 PM • 1 Comments
October 26, 2006
Category: Skeptics Circle
Kevin Leitch decided to hold the 46th Skeptic's Circle in heaven!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:46 PM • 0 Comments
October 25, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
Tim Blair isn't going to let go of his claim that Richard Garfield criticised the Lancet study. He offered this quote: "I'm shocked by the levels they (the investigators) reached," said Garfield. "Common sense, gut level, says it is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:00 PM • 30 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
In my comments Iraq Body Count's Josh Dougherty throws a tantrum: Tim, you're a bald-faced liar ... do you really need to be such a monumental fraud and liar to puff up this Lancet study? Glenn Reynolds has studiously ignored...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:40 PM • 11 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
Obviously anything Gregg Easterbrook writes about the Lancet study is going to be really stupid, and sure enough, he gives us this: The latest silly estimate comes from a new study in the British medical journal Lancet, which absurdly estimates...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:11 PM • 9 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
Tim Blair, whose reaction to the Lancet study was to reject the entire concept of random sampling offers us this: Among other Lancet critics: Paul Bolton, a professor of international health at Boston University; Stephen Apfelroth, professor of pathology...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:11 AM • 32 Comments
October 24, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
In May I analysed the press coverage of the Iraq Body Count and found that the IBC numbers were usually misreported as the number of deaths and the IBC maximum was often reported as an upper bound on the number...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 46 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
Sarah Bosely writes in the Guardian: The critics argued that the Lancet paper does not indicate that the researchers moved far enough away from the main street. "The further away you get, the further you are from the convoys that...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:35 AM • 45 Comments
October 22, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
The editors at Slate really don't like epidemiology. Not content with Christopher Hitchens' clueless attack on the Lancet study they've published another attack on the study. And this one is by Fred Kaplan, the man who made such a dreadful...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:15 PM • 21 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
Daniel Davies was on the radio talking about the Lancet study. Richard Miniter interviews Gilbert Burnham. Deena Beasley reports what experts in cluster sampling think of the study: "Over the last 25 years, this sort of methodology has been used...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:23 AM • 30 Comments
October 21, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
I guess that the next time a new physics study comes out Science will ask epidemiologists what they think of it. You see, John Bohannon, the reporter for Science, decided that opinions from a couple of physicists and an economist...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:28 PM • 89 Comments
October 19, 2006
Category: LancetIraq
The Washington Post has hosted a on-line discussion with Gilbert Burnham. Some snippets: "One last point that is hard for many people to understand. The number of people or households interviewed and the number of clusters used does NOT depend...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:49 PM • 62 Comments
