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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, 2007

Pinata etc

Category: stupidity

After Team Blair was beaten by six year old Ryan Gwin, Tim Blair tried to rewrite history: Nine-year-old Sydney boy Ryan Gwin suffers anxiety over the fuel consumed by his father's bus; Because if Ryan had really been nine...

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Plonk

Category: meta

A kill file is a feature of most Usenet news readers that allowed to permanently discard all posts from a particular user without even having to look at them. A couple of my readers have asked about a kill file...

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April 28, 2007

Globe and Mail on Riyadh Lafta

Category: LancetIraq

The Globe and Mail has a story about Riyadh Lafta: Riyadh Lafta, who co-authored a controversial study that estimated the war-related deaths at more than half a million, had planned to tell students at Simon Fraser University about his work...

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April 27, 2007

Alex Robson's ignorance

Category: More Guns Less Crime

You may recall how Alex Robson demonstrated his ignorance of basic statistics and of climate research. Now he has written an op-ed in Sydney's Daily Telegraph where he claims that there is no research at all that contradicts John Lott:...

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Nobody should trust S Fred Singer

Category: Global Warming

Eli Rabett has the sordid tale of how S Fred Singer took advantage of Roger Revelle to put his name on a paper which expressed skepticism about global warming. Justin Lancaster has a web page with all the supporting documents...

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59th Skeptic's Circle

Category: Skeptics Circle

compiled by Matt, over here....

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April 26, 2007

Wolfowitz deputy tried to water down references to climate change

Category: Global Warming

The Financial Times reports: One of Paul Wolfowitz's two handpicked deputies, Juan José Daboub, tried to water down references to climate change in one of the World Bank's main environmental strategy papers, the bank's chief scientist has told the Financial...

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Mooney in Sydney

Category: Global Warming

John Wilkins has already told the story with pictures, but I had to post this picture I took at Watson's Bay: What's that on the ground? Have a closer look:...

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April 25, 2007

I was wrong about Australia's gun laws

Category: guns

After Martin Bryant murdered 35 people at Port Arthur, Prime Minister John Howard got new laws enacted that banned semi-automatic long guns. At the time, I felt that was bad policy. Since almost all most gun killings involve just one...

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Mary Rosh and Karl Rove

Category: misc

Josh Marshall suggests that Karl Rove was getting his allegations of voter fraud that lead to the U.S. Attorney firing scandal from an article by John Lott. He doesn't have a link to the article, but here it is, posted...

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April 23, 2007

Gilbert Burnham interview

Category: LancetIraq

Gilbert Burnham has been interviewed (subscription required, copy here). Some extracts: Why do you think your survey has been criticised? These are unpleasant results, and they are associated with a war that has seriously divided the countries participating. Some people...

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April 22, 2007

Glenn Reynolds really does think that wishes are horses

Category: stupidity

Glenn Reynolds accuses me of quote doctoring, linking to this utterly conclusive proof by JF Beck: Lambert himself engages in selective out-of-context quoting in attempting to refute Berlau's assertion that Paul Ehrlich advocated the forced sterilization of all Indian men...

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Chris Mooney in Sydney

Category:

Chris Mooney is giving a talk in Sydney this Tuesday....

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Blogger Rap

Category: meta

Mrs Deltoid wrote the following and told me that I had to post it on my blog. I'm not sure who it is directed at....

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April 21, 2007

Lancet data released

Category: LancetIraq

The Lancet authors have released the data to other researchers: Six months have passed since the publication of the study and we feel the time is now right to make the data set available to academic and other scientific groups...

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April 20, 2007

Dubious figures about guns

Category: misc

Carl Bialik, the Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy" writes about some of the dubious numbers used by both sides on the debate about guns. This one should be familiar to my readers:...

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