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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: DDT
In this piece Roger Bate, Donald Roberts and Richard Tren accuse the UN of "Scientific Fraud against DDT". Their Accusation is based on an Opinion paper by Roberts and Tren published in Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine. So let's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:05 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: DDT
With Donald Roberts about to give testimony before Congress it is instructive to look at his Senate testimony on October 6, 2004. Just as the use of DDT in house spraying brought spectacular reductions in malaria, declining use of house...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:58 AM • 29 Comments •
Category: DDT
Merry Christmas to all my readers. Enjoy this 1946 ad for DDT -- you can put it everywhere!...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:24 AM • 41 Comments •
Category: DDT
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid claims that environmentalists have killed people by stopping DDT use against malaria. This is not true. DDT is still used against malaria and environmentalists don't oppose its use.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:51 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: DDT
The Skeptoid podcast on DDT made heavy use of misinformation from Steve Milloy. As a result it was wrong from beginning to end.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 PM • 113 Comments •
Category: DDT
In an earlier post So George Monbiot challenged Brand to notice and announce that he's wrong about DDT. So far it hasn't happened. Unless it does, I think we should be skeptical about the rest of Brand's thesis. Well, as...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:16 PM • 114 Comments •
Category: DDT
Following in the footsteps of The Great Global Warming Swindle Channel 4 has produced a new documentary that also appears to favour being controversial over being accurate or fair: What the Green Movement Got Wrong. Adam Werbach who was in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:41 AM • 68 Comments •
Category: DDT
To Andrew Bolt, the question of whether a study is acceptable or not has nothing to do with the methodology and everything to do with whether he finds the conclusions congenial.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:48 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: DDT
Ed Darrell points to a WUWT post by Indur Goklany which promotes the use of DDT to fight malaria instead of more effective measures. As with most of the DDT promoters, Goklany carefully avoids mentioning the way mosquitoes evolve resistance...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:14 PM • 64 Comments •
Category: DDT
Africa Fighting Malaria does't spend any money on actually fighting malaria
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:22 AM • 31 Comments •
