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August 31, 2007

Skeptic's Circle 68

Category: Skeptics Circle

Compiled by Martin Rundkvist, at Aardvarcheology....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:53 PM • 0 Comments

August 30, 2007

Classifying abstracts on global climate change

Category: Global Warming

Via William Connolley I find another attempt to claim that there is no consensus in the scientific literature: In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:35 PM • 61 Comments

Robert Chung on David Kane

Category: LancetIraq

Boosted from comments. Robert Chung writes: David Kane wrote: Anyway, it seems clear to me now that you are bluffing Me, bluffing about knowing how calculate a CMR? Ouch, that hurts. David, what a fascinating example of hubris. You do...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 154 Comments

August 29, 2007

Delurk and win!

Category: meta

Scienceblogs is running a contest where you can win a five-day trip for two to one of the world's greatest science cities. All you have to do to enter is post a comment one of the blogs here. So if...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:47 PM • 39 Comments

August 28, 2007

Jim Easter on Sweeney, Ruckelshaus and DDT

Category: DDT

It's often claimed by DDT advocates that the 1972 ban on the agricultural use of DDT was made in spite of a report that cleared DDT from harm. Jim Easter has found and posted a copy of the report. It...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:10 PM • 6 Comments

August 27, 2007

Open access to scientific papers is bad because it makes them more accessible

Category: astroturf

No really! That's the argument. But I'm getting ahead of myself. In January I wrote how for-profit publishers had hired an infamous PR firm to run a campaign against open access publishing. They've now produced an organization called PRISM (Partnership...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 49 Comments

August 26, 2007

Maybe the Australian could employ a solar power PR person for balance?

Category: Global Warming

Last Tuesday Matthew Warren [reported] in the Australian: Labor plans to rid Australian homes of off-peak electric hot water systems, in a move it claims will cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 7.5million tonnes each year. ... Labor will keep...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:22 PM • 177 Comments

August 24, 2007

The call of the rake

Category: Fumento • LancetIraq

I really don't know where to begin with this anti-Lancet piece by Michael Fumento. Should I start with the way Fumento describes Kane's paper as "so complex" that it "may cause your head to explode" while being utterly certain that...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:57 PM • 45 Comments

August 23, 2007

Another meltdown at the Australian

Category: Global Warming • The War on Science

Last month the Australian mounted an over-the-top defence of one of their pundits after blogs criticised him for spinning as favourable to the government an opinion poll that showed the opposition way ahead and no change in its lead. So...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:51 PM • 9 Comments

August 22, 2007

Top 5 Top 100 Australian blog lists

Category: meta

Here are the top 5 lists of the top Australian blogs: Rank From Method 1 Janette Toral Blog Juice 2 Ratified.org Technorati + Feedburner + Google Rank 3 Craig Harper Technorati 4 Meg Tsiamis Technorati + Alexa 5 Australianblogs.com.au links...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • 0 Comments

August 21, 2007

The Australian's War on Science IX

Category: The War on Science

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote how the Australian had misrepresented Rajenda Pachauri (IPCC head), falsely claiming that he supported the Australian government's policy of delay. Media Watch has the latest developments. Pachauri wrote to the Australian: I am...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 37 Comments

August 20, 2007

Good news about malaria

Category: DDT

The Washington Post reports: Long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets should be distributed free, rapidly and widely in malaria-endemic areas, World Health Organization officials said here Thursday, setting new guidelines for fighting the mosquito-borne disease around the globe. For years, a policy...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:40 PM • 3 Comments

August 19, 2007

This week in Global Warming Denial

Category: Global Warming

Four of the six government members on a committee examining geosequestration put out a dissent denying the existence of anthropogenic global warming. I was going to write a post on what they got wrong, but I realised that since they...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:25 PM • 144 Comments

August 18, 2007

Study finds that DDT not the most effective for IRS

Category: DDT

Members of the "we hate Rachel Carson" club have been touting a new study on indoor residual spraying as showing that DDT remains effective against malaria even when the mosquitoes are resistant. For examples, see Angela Logomasini and Ron Bailey....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:14 PM • 10 Comments

August 17, 2007

The crumbs that fall from Instapundit's table

Category: Global Warming • stupidity

If I summarized Glenn Reynold's response to my post on his hyping of a small correction to GISS data, you would not believe me, so I'm quoting the whole thing: Lamberted! But no Instalanche. Later: In an update: "Matthew Yglesias...

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:09 PM • 28 Comments

August 16, 2007

Nexus 6 has a new cartoon

Category: Global Warming • funny

Nexus 6 has a new cartoon making fun of global warming denialists....

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Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:51 PM • 14 Comments