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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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May 30, 2007

Taking aim at Rachel Carson

Category: DDT

I've been doing a little research into how the Rachel-killed-millions hoax was spread. In The War Against the Greens (1st edition, published in 1994), the argument appears, but it is confined to the lunatic fringe: "How many people have...

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Astroturf case study

Category: astroturf

In 1995, several think tanks mounted vitrolic attacks on the FDA using expensive radio, television and print ads. In an article in the Los Angeles Times Myron Levin wrote: Although the attacks do not mention tobacco, the industry is a...

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May 29, 2007

Chinese Navy Sails Again

Category: Global WarmingMonckton

Remember how Christopher Monckton claimed that Gavin Menzies' fantasies about the Chinese navy sailing around the Arctic in 1421 proved it was warmer then? EG Beck (of CO2 graph nonsense fame) makes the same argument and has a map to...

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May 28, 2007

Africa Fighting Malaria's Wedge Document

Category: DDT

The wedge document is the Discovery Institute's secret plan to defeat scientific materialism and promote Creationism. Below is Africa Fighting Malaria's wedge document. One part of the wedge is to use a simple message: "banning DDT spread malaria and killed...

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May 27, 2007

Happy Birthday, Rachel Carson

Category: DDT

Today is the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson's birth. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the 20th century: Silent Spring, serialized in the New Yorker in June 1962, gored corporate oxen all over the...

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Your postmodern ABC

Category: Global Warming

Martin Durkin's "Great Global Warming Swindle" used fake graphs to try to make a case that global warming is a hoax. Compare their version of temperature change (on left) which they claimed came from NASA with what you actually get...

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Sinclair Davidson, Lancet denialist

Category: LancetIraq

It turns out that global warming denialist Sinclair Davidson is also a Lancet denialist: The Carson piece tells us it's impossible to spray 3/4 of the houses in malarial areas. Yet, the Lancet tells us a research team went to...

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May 26, 2007

J.R Dunn's Fabrications against Rachel Carson

Category: DDT

You know what's coming when a post starts with: "At times it seems that there are more sites honoring Rachel Carson that Josef Stalin at his peak." J. R. Dunn has written the usual Rachel-killed-millions post, but has added some...

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May 23, 2007

Rachel Carson Kills Babies .org

Category: DDT

From the people who gave you "CO2: We call it life", we now have a website: "Rachel Carson: we call her a baby killer". They have pictures of children they allege Carson killed on every single page of the site....

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Michael Crichton debunked

Category: Global Warming

Via Gristmill, reasic's magisterial debunking of Michael Crichton's silly "Aliens Cause Global Warming" talk....

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May 21, 2007

This Week in the Unending War on Rachel Carson

Category: DDT

Glenn Reynolds approvingly quotes Rich Karlgaard's ill-informed comments on Rachel Carson: FORBES' RICH KARLGAARD ASKS how many people died because of Rachel Carson? Buried in paragraph 27, and paraphrasing the Congressman, The Washington Post concedes that "numerous" deaths might have...

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Guide to Global Warming Denialists

Category: Global Warming

MarkH has written a guide to the global warming denialists. The Competive Enterprise Institute wins the "bottom of the barrel" rating....

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May 20, 2007

National Post hatchet job on Gore

Category: Global Warming

I wrote earlier about William Broad's many misrepresentations in his story that criticised Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Now Kevin Libin has produced an article for the National Post that makes Broad look like a paragon of virtue. Look at...

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May 19, 2007

The Unending War on Rachel Carson

Category: DDT

In 1962 Monsanto published a parody of Silent Spring called The Desolate Year where they imagined death and destruction from "the garrote of Nature" if the United States went without pesticides for a year. Quietly, then, the desolate year...

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Peak Pielke

Category: Global Warming

Roger Pielke Jr has stopped blogging. James Annan comments: It had appeared for some time that RPJr's his blog was on the wane, attracting little more than a handful of denialist ditto-heads, and now he's decided to knock it on...

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May 18, 2007

Steve McIntyre's DOS attack on GISS

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NASA's GISS has on-line graphing system that lets you see a graph of temperatures for a particular weather station (For example, here is Sydney airport).) Steve McIntyre decided to run a script that asked the GISS system to produce graphs...

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