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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
February 27, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
Diane Farsetta has an excellent and comprehensive write up on the Lancet and other studies on deaths in Iraq. A few extracts: Theoretically, the public health surveys and polls that have been conducted in Iraq -- at great risk to...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:04 PM • 33 Comments •
February 26, 2008
Category: Global Warming
The latest story doing the rounds of the global warming deniers (Drudge, Andrew Bolt, etc), is this one from Lorne Gunter in the National Post: Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:24 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
Mark Hoofnagle reviews a new group blog, Science-Based Medicine. I must say I've loved much of the writing at the new blog Science-Based Medicine. These guys are fighting the good fight and presenting very sophisticated aspects of evaluating the medical...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:19 AM • 2 Comments •
February 24, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Remember last year, when Exxon said that they would no longer fund organizations like the International Policy Network and the George Marshall Institute that misrepresent the science of global warming? Well, they are still funding them. Also still on the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:43 AM • 88 Comments •
February 19, 2008
Category: astroturf
Thanks to the Tobacco documents we've learned how tobacco companies have secretly funded astroturf organizations like junkscience.com, secretly paid for think tanks to run political campaigns for them, and even created their own astroturf scientific journal. The latest pile of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:03 PM • 43 Comments •
February 18, 2008
Category: meta
The two millionth visitor here came from California State University, Sacramento. My thanks to everyone who has dropped by....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:56 PM • 7 Comments •
February 17, 2008
Category: DDT
Reader James reports that the DDT ban myth is repeated in a new book: Over the last few decades, however, the WHO has discouraged the use of DDT in member states â encouraged by environmentalists, who have often massively overstated...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:43 PM • 111 Comments •
February 14, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
John Tirman has an article in Editor and Publisher. Extract: The charge, repeated in all these media, that the Iraqi research leader, Riyadh Lafta, M.D., operated "without U.S. supervision" and was therefore suspect is particularly interesting. Munro, in a note...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:43 PM • 45 Comments •
Category: LancetIraq
Michael Spagat is back with another attack on the Lancet study. Most of it is stuff we've seen before, like absurd assumptions he makes for Main Street Bias, and the false claim that Soros funded the study. But there is...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:41 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
An open thread where you can discuss anything you like. Especially Canadian health care and the Israel Palestine conflict....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:07 AM • 165 Comments •
February 13, 2008
Category: Global Warming
Kåre Fog has examined the lists of alleged errors in An Incovenient Truth put out by Monckton, the CEI and so on and counted how many actual errors they found. The score: in the film and book combined there were...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:27 AM • 94 Comments •
February 12, 2008
Category: DDT
Kim Larsen has an extensive story on DDT and malaria in onEarth. An extract: DDT proponents are generally reluctant to acknowledge the complicating and protean factor of mosquito resistance. Entomologist May Berenbaum finds this galling. An expert on insecticide metabolism,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:35 PM • 46 Comments •
February 11, 2008
Category: LancetIraq
Neil Munro has had another go at the Lancet studies. This time he has gone on right-wing talk shows to attack Riyadh Lafta. On Glenn Beck he claimed This study -- the guys in this study have not shown the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:24 PM • 45 Comments •
February 10, 2008
Category: DDT
At Malaria Matters, Bill Brieger suggests that a new report offers a "revisionist malaria history": A new report on the implementation of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) by the World Health Organization begins with the following 'historical' perspective: "In the 1950s...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:40 AM • 3 Comments •
February 9, 2008
Category: Global Warming
The latest story doing the rounds of the global warming deniers (Drudge, Instapundit, Andrew Bolt, etc), is this one from the Investors Business Daily: Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:29 AM • 105 Comments •
February 8, 2008
Category: Global Warming
John Mashey points me to a video of Naomi Oreskes' talk on "The American Denial of Global Warming": The first part ("TRUTH") outlines the history of climate science research, and the unpoliticized acceptance thereof that lasted until the early 1990s....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 AM • 143 Comments •
February 2, 2008
Category: DDT
The World Health Organization has a new report showing dramatic decreases in malaria in Rwanda and Ethiopia following the large-scale distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and artemisinin-combination therapy drugs (ACTs) : Our investigation showed that declines of malaria...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:50 AM • 29 Comments •
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