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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 30, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Gilbert Burnham on the revelation that the British government's scientific advisors told them not to criticize the Lancet study: We never had any doubt that the study would stand the test of time, it was designed with a lot of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:22 PM • 47 Comments
Category: Skeptics Circle
Martin Rundkvist hosts Skeptics' Circle 57....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:38 AM • 0 Comments
March 28, 2007
Category: Levitt
Q: What do you do when your lawsuit against Freakonomics gets thrown out?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:02 PM • 31 Comments
March 26, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
The BBC used a Freedom of Information Request to find out what the scientific advice to the British government about the Lancet study was: The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:02 PM • 61 Comments
March 25, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Jonathan Chait analyses the reasons why Republicans deny anthropogenic global warming: As the evidence for global warming gets stronger, Republicans are actually getting more skeptical. Al Gore's recent congressional testimony on the subject, and the chilly reception he received from...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:46 PM • 375 Comments
March 20, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Sylvia S Tognetti rounds up commentary on Broad's hit piece and puts it an a wider context: The reason Al Gore has become a polarizing figure is not for any of the reasons given by Broad, who makes a crude...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:02 AM • 19 Comments
March 18, 2007
Category: Global Warming
This is a guest post by Matt Daws. I'm a mathematician at St John's College in Oxford, and so having seen a number of posters around for a conference on climate change in my own college, I decided to head...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:22 AM • 60 Comments
March 17, 2007
Category: meta
Over at ClimateAudit Steve McIntyre complains that Al Gore loving Google has dropped ClimateAudit from their search results: I've noted from time to time that climateaudit.org ranked extremely high on many google searches. One of the ways to find articles...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:40 AM • 50 Comments
March 16, 2007
Category: Global Warming • The War on Science
The Australian's War on Science has continued. Fortunately, I am able to outsource the refuting. First, Nexus 6 takes apart a Tuesday editorial where the Australian foolishly allows itself to be swindled by a British TV show. (Mind you the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:24 PM • 14 Comments
March 15, 2007
Category: Skeptics Circle
The 56th Edition of the Skeptics Circle is out! Read it here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:11 AM • 3 Comments
March 14, 2007
Category: McKitrick
McKitrick and Essex have managed to get their "no such thing as average temperature" stupidity published in a journal! In their paper they add some new stupid to go with the old stupid from Taken by Storm. Can they take...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:32 PM • 16 Comments
March 13, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Last November Ray Pierrehumbert at RealClimate was very disappointed in a New York Times article by William Broad: The worst fault of the article, though, is that it leaves the reader with the impression that there is something in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:51 AM • 28 Comments
March 10, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Daniel Davies comments on the attempted disproof by incredulity of the Lancet numbers: I am curious as to why anyone is bothering with this debate any more (in some of the discussion on Dr Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hick's comments, it has...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:38 AM • 125 Comments
March 8, 2007
Category: DDT
Alex catches Dominic Lawson spreading the DDT ban myth. Lawson is the brother-in-law of Christopher Monckton who also spead the myth....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:39 AM • 7 Comments
March 7, 2007
Category: LancetIraq • The War on Science
The Australian doesn't just make war on climate science, they don't like epidemiology either, printing Anjana Ahuja's hatchet job on the Lancet study. Greta at Radio Open Source has posted a response from Les Roberts:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:14 PM • 12 Comments
March 6, 2007
Category: stupidity
From episode 2 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Narrator: The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as "a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man". The Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:34 AM • 34 Comments
