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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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January 31, 2008

Lott's fabrications about safe storage paper

Category: safe-storage

In a paper claiming that safe-storage gun laws increase crime and do not decrease accidental deaths, Lott and Whitley: The Cummings et al., supra note 15, research provides evidence of a 23 percent drop in juvenile accidental gun deaths after...

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Neil Munro on global warming and y2k

Category: LancetIraq

I wouldn't have thought that it was possible to be more wrong than Neil Munro's prediction of the result of the Iraq war: The painful images of starving Iraqi children will be replaced by alluring Baghdad city lights, smiling wages-earners...

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January 30, 2008

On trolls

Category: meta

Tanta writes: I cannot make anyone stop responding to pointless or nuisance comments. You have to want to restrain yourself, because you understand that the only way to get rid of them is to fail to give them the attention...

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January 29, 2008

ORB revises estimate of Iraqi deaths

Category: LancetIraq

ORB has revised their estimate of violent deaths as a result of the Iraq war (discussed earlier here). They write: Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000...

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January 23, 2008

Climate Audit Comedy of Errors

Category: Global Warming

Eli Rabett chronicles the Climate Audit comedy of errors. One consequence of the error in the RSS satellite data is that the global warming skeptics switched to using RSS, and now they can't switch back without making it look realy...

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January 22, 2008

No, global warming hasn't stopped

Category: misc

John Lott claims: The final numbers will be out in March, but the initial information makes it look as if 2007 will be the coldest in a decade. So much for the claim that "the probability that 2007 would be...

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Tim Ball, Creationist?

Category: timball

Via Big City Lib, I find this, from Tim Ball and Tom Harris: Like all philosophies that come to dominate society, climate hysteria is part of an evolution of ideas and needs an historical context. The current western view of...

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January 21, 2008

Tirman on Neil Munro's dishonesty

Category: LancetIraq

John Tirman documents Neil Munro's dishonesty. I think this is an excellent catch by Tirman -- Munro selling his National Journal story to Iraq war architect Michael Rubin: George Soros funded the survey. The U.S. authors played no role in...

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January 18, 2008

Tim Ball and Archimedes principle

Category: timball

Richard Littlemore has the latest on Tim Ball's antics. Check out this bit from Ball: The point I made was with regard to the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. I posed the question about what happens to the water level...

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January 17, 2008

Steve McIntyre defends Pat Michaels' fraud

Category: Global Warming

In a 1988 paper James Hansen presented three scenarios (A, B and C) for future climate change, saying that Scenario B was the most plausible. In 1998 Pat Michaels committed scientific fraud when he erased scenarios B and C from...

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January 15, 2008

Deaths in Iraq

Category: LancetIraq

I think it is worthwhile to update James Wimberly's comparison of surveys of deaths in Iraq. In the table below death tolls have been extrapolated to give a number of deaths due to the war so far. SurveyViolent deathsExcess deaths...

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Another fabrication from John Lott

Category: safe-storage

John Lott, in the National Review Online writes: Nor does it really matter that the only academic research on the impact of trigger locks on crime finds that states that require guns be locked up and unloaded face a five-percent...

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More on "wormy corn"

Category: Technology

Remember how Shane Morris posted a photo that he claimed showed that the "wormy corn" sign had been taken down when in fact the sign was visible in his photo? Here's the latest (from Private Eye): After the Eye reported...

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Get well soon, Tim

Category: personal

Tim Blair has cancer. He says that the prognosis is good, but he's having major abdominal surgery next week. He has my best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery....

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January 14, 2008

More comments on dodgy National Journal piece

Category: LancetIraq

Johns Hopkins corrects some of the misinformation in the Neil Munro's hit piece. John Tirman has gone through the whole thing, noting all the inaccuracies and misleading statements....

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January 13, 2008

Pro-war billionaire funds attack on Lancet study

Category: LancetIraq

In a story funded by a pro-war billionaire, Brendan Montague, who seems to know which side of his bread is buttered on, writes: A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was...

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