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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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September 30, 2007
Category: personal
There was a sales person at my front door. The conversation went like this: SP: Are you interested in getting Foxtel? Me: No. SP: Well, [he's about to launch into his sales pitch, but then he notices Silas] That's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:41 PM • 29 Comments
September 29, 2007
Mark Steyn on the trouble he has with facts: Incidentally, I stopped writing for the [New York] Times a few years ago because their fanatical "fact-checking" copy-editors edited my copy into unreadable sludge. I think it's some sort of chemical...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:47 PM • 173 Comments
Category: patmichaels
Robert McClure reports: Now the Society of Environmental Journalists' Watchdog Tipsheet has just revealed that Michaels withdrew as an expert witness in a recently decided landmark court case in which automakers sought to turn back state efforts to rein in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:46 PM • 1 Comments
September 28, 2007
Category: Global Warming
James Hansen replies to the deceitful IBD editorial: The latest swift-boating (unless there is a new one among seven unanswered calls on my cell) is the whacko claim that I received $720,000.00 from George Soros. Here is the real deal,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:42 AM • 251 Comments
September 27, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Via RealClimate, James Hansen refutes the Investor's Business Daily's claim that he endorsed global cooling in 1971: Mr. McCaslin reported that Rasool and Hansen were colleagues at NASA and "Mr. Rasool came to his chilling conclusions by resorting in part...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:13 PM • 57 Comments
September 26, 2007
Category: DDT
Last year I wrote about the inaccurate claims that the World Health Organization had reversed its policy on DDT when it had in fact supported its use all along. A recent paper in Lancet Infectious Diseases 2007; 7:632-633 also concludes...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:58 PM • 10 Comments
September 24, 2007
Category: Monckton
William Connolley provides an example of Christopher Monckton telling a fib. I have another example. In Monckton's letter to Senators Snowe and Rockefeller, he writes: Finally, you may wonder why it is that a member of the Upper House of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:45 PM • 17 Comments
Category: meta
Say hello to two new to ScienceBlogs bloggers, Coby Beck, of How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic fame, and Science Woman who writes about balancing family and an academic career....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:24 PM • 3 Comments
September 23, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Eli Rabbett coined the usage "to Rasool", to refer to the practice of attributing papers to just one of the authors in order to target the only author mentioned: A very famous paper by S. Ichtiaque Rasool and Steven Schneider...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:05 PM • 57 Comments
September 21, 2007
Category: DDT
Aaron Swartz has written a nice article giving the story of the anti-environmentalist war on Rachel Carson....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:17 PM • 2 Comments
Category: LancetIraq
Will McLean found an error in the detailed tables for the ORB survey. The tables indicated that 60% of the Baghdad sample was Christian, which doesn't seem plausible. They've now released corrected tables. It looks like the religion of some...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 PM • 38 Comments
Category: astroturf
Jim Giles, who broke the story of how for-profit publishers had hired Eric Dezenhall to run a PR campaign against Open Access, has a post at the New Scientist Science News blog, where he posts a copy of Dezenhall's proposal....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 PM • 4 Comments
September 20, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Study this cartoon by Nexus 6. Read this post by Richard Littlemore. Update: Nexus 6 rubs it in....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:24 PM • 9 Comments
Category: Global Warming
The McIntyre factor is the amount that you have to multiply the size of an adjustment in the GISS US temperatures by to get the number of words in the resulting Steve McIntyre post. Empirical evidence puts the McIntyre factor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:06 PM • 77 Comments
September 18, 2007
Category: DDT
Ed Darrell writes about the fools promoting DDT as a solution to West Nile virus. It's as if these people think that there are no other insecticides in the world. And he has more examples in a later post: Steve...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:22 AM • 109 Comments
September 17, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
James Wimberly adds the new ORB survey to his chart that extrapolates the various surveys of Iraqi deaths. He comments: The ORB estimate of 1.22 million is very close to Lancet 2 updated according to the IBC body count timeline...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:13 PM • 36 Comments
