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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

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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April 19, 2007

John Lott in the Australian

Category: misc

The editorial in the Australian today stated: With memories of the 35 killed at Port Arthur still raw, many Australians would be shocked to learn that the gun lobby in the US pounced on the Virginia Tech massacre to call...

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April 18, 2007

Reynolds claims "More Guns, Less Crime"

Category: guns

Glenn Reynolds argues that if only more people had guns, there would be fewer mass shootings. Unfortunately he gets his facts wrong. If there were more responsible, armed people on campuses, mass murder would be harder....

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UK refuses transit visa to Riyadh Lafta

Category: LancetIraq

The Globe and Mail reports: After he couldn't get a visa to tell Americans about an alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children, a renowned Iraqi epidemiologist has been told he can't fly through Britain en route to give...

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April 17, 2007

Glenn Reynolds Syndrome

Category: stupidity

Back in 2004, Glenn Reynolds declared that the election here in Australia was in no small part a referendum on the Iraq war. This was wrong, as anyone who was here at the time could tell you. So, I posted...

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April 15, 2007

Dennis Avery, wrong about everything

Category: DDT

Dennis Avery has taken a break from getting global warming science wrong to write a Rachel-Carson-was-worse-than-Hitler piece: If Rachel Carson were still alive, April 12 would have been her 100th birthday. All over the Western World well-meaning, but misguided, souls...

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April 14, 2007

John Berlau, quote doctor

Category: DDT

Glenn Reynolds endorses a post by John Berlau who accuses environmentalists of making racist comments like Don Imus. Berlau gives five examples and Berlau is deceptive in each and every one of them. Environmentalists must be completely non-racist if Berlau...

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DDT affects male fertility?

Category: DDT

The Durban Mercury reports: South African medical researchers have reported alarming evidence of low sperm counts and other damage to the male reproductive system linked to the use of the pesticide DDT in anti-malaria spray campaigns....

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April 13, 2007

Riyadh Lafta to speak at SFU

Category: LancetIraq

The Globe and Mail has more details about Lafta's visit to Simon Fraser: A highly regarded Iraqi epidemiologist who wants to tell Americans about an alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children will come to Canada instead because he...

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Parting fools from their money

Category: Global Warming

BetUS.com has set up a bunch of bets for suckers on global warming. Ker Than at LiveScience has the story: BetUS.com spokesman Reed Richards said the company will personally back numerous bets, or "propositions," posted on the website related to...

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Top 100 Australian blogs

Category: meta

Craig Harper has created a list of the top 100 Australian blogs based on Technorati rankings (which are based on the number of blogs that link to you). It's in his right side bar near the bottom. Of course that...

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58th Skeptic's Circle

Category: Skeptics Circle

is at Geek Counterpoint....

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April 12, 2007

A new flavour of Global Warming denial

Category: Global Warming

The IPA is the Australian version of the CEI, so you don't have to read an article they publish on global warming to know what the conclusions will be. But you do have to read it to find out what...

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April 10, 2007

Bob Carter claims it's not warming

Category: bobcarter

Hey, remember how all the global warming skeptics used to say that warming wasn't happening because the satellite data didn't show a warming trend. Until in 2005 when they found a mistake in the satellite data and what do you...

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WSJ in denial about Global Warming

Category: Global Warming

I can't help but be amazed at the bloody-minded denial in Holman Jenkins' WSJ op-ed: It would surprise the public, and even the Supreme Court, to know how utterly the science of global warming offers no evidence whatsoever on the...

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April 8, 2007

Global Warming links

Category: Global Warming

The Editors comes up with the best description of one my posts ever: Finally, an all-star panel of warbloggers attempt to relieve the glory days of the Summer of War by holding an authentic olde-timey "Fisking" of an essay about...

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April 7, 2007

Lancet authors reply in Nature

Category: LancetIraq

Nature has published a letter (subscription required) from Roberts and Burnham responding to this story. In our opinion, your News story about our Lancet paper "Death toll in Iraq: survey team takes on new critics" (Nature 446, 6-7; 2007) has...

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IBC goes after Lancet study yet again

Category: LancetIraq

The IBC is chastising publications that cite the Lancet estimate of Iraqi deaths. lenin comments: So what is the point of IBC expending so much energy and writing to various organisations to cast baseless or irrelevant aspersions on the Lancet...

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April 6, 2007

Pinata whacking not outsourced

Category: stupidity

Commentator 1: Hello, and welcome to a special Good Friday edition of INTELLECTUAL CAGE MATCH. Today we have a great match up for you. The topic is Global Warming and it's the collective wisdom of Tim Blair's commenters against Ryan...

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April 5, 2007

Pinata whacking outsourced

Category: stupidity

to Robert Merkel. (Via missing link.)...

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April 4, 2007

I join the vlogging craze

Category: meta

I cannot resist responding to Scott McLemee vlogging his watching of Ann Althouse vlogging her watching of American Idol....

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April 3, 2007

Crackpot index

Category: bobcarter

John Baez invented the crackpot index, a simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics: A -5 point starting credit. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false. 2 points for every statement that...

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