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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
April 29, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 8 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:27 AM • 7 Comments •
April 28, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:43 PM • •
April 27, 2007
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:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:03 PM • 10 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:50 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
compiled by Matt, over here....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:06 AM • •
April 26, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 AM • 29 Comments •
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:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:20 AM • 2 Comments •
April 25, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:25 PM • 23 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:08 PM • 3 Comments •
April 23, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 PM • 1 Comments •
April 22, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:55 PM • 53 Comments •
Chris Mooney is giving a talk in Sydney this Tuesday....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:55 PM • •
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:21 AM • 2 Comments •
April 21, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:20 AM • 94 Comments •
April 20, 2007
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:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:36 PM • 10 Comments •
April 19, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:12 PM • 28 Comments •
April 18, 2007
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 89 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:18 PM • 6 Comments •
April 17, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:39 PM • 11 Comments •
April 15, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:29 PM • 20 Comments •
April 14, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:50 PM • 18 Comments •
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:05 AM • 1 Comments •
April 13, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:52 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:40 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Skeptics Circle
is at Geek Counterpoint....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:25 AM • 2 Comments •
April 12, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:50 PM • 281 Comments •
April 10, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:56 PM • 52 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:28 AM • 88 Comments •
April 8, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:22 PM • 19 Comments •
April 7, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:45 PM • 13 Comments •
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:59 AM • 2 Comments •
April 6, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 AM • 16 Comments •
April 5, 2007
Category: stupidity
to Robert Merkel. (Via missing link.)...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:20 AM • 1 Comments •
April 4, 2007
Category: meta
I cannot resist responding to Scott McLemee vlogging his watching of Ann Althouse vlogging her watching of American Idol....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:38 PM • 3 Comments •
April 3, 2007
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:29 PM • 15 Comments •
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