Fumento:
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 on August 24, 2007 1:57 PM • 45 Comments
Long time readers will be familiar with the epic that is Michael Fumento's attempt to debunk the first Lancet survey. A summary can't really do it justice, but what basically happened is that Fumento dismissed the 100,000 number because he...
Posted on July 29, 2007 2:13 PM • 1 Comments
Michael Fumento has been booted off Winds of Change because he misrepresented a scientific article. As usual he responded with abuse: I'm off to Ramadi again next month. Put that alongside the chickenhawks and chairborne rangers whose blogs you print....
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Posted on January 22, 2007 10:59 PM • 31 Comments
Michael Fumento is making even less sense than usual: Lambert is one of the most obnoxious trolls on the Internet. He produces nothing; he exists to tear down other people to make up for some perceived deficiency on his part....
Posted on January 15, 2007 10:52 AM • 13 Comments
In response to my post, Michael Fumento has offered a bet: 10 to 1 odds on a pandemic in the next year. That means that Fumento thinks that there is a 10% of a pandemic in the next year. This...
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Posted on December 30, 2006 12:07 PM • 1 Comments
Michael Fumento thinks there is nothing to worry about. Revere disagrees: It isn't that what Fumento says is so outrageous one would have to be stupid or ignorant to believe it. It's that it would be folly (and stupid) to...
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Posted on December 20, 2006 11:22 AM • 9 Comments
Michael Fumento complains about his Wikipedia article: An Aussie named Tim Lambert has as his raison d'etre attacking anybody who is more intelligent, more successful, and more relevant than he is. That leaves him with 6.3 million targets -- more...
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Posted on July 12, 2006 2:00 PM • 71 Comments
David Appell heard Michael Fumento on the radio: My God, he is even worse on the radio! You'd think he was the only journalist who ever went to Iraq. I only caught his segment for about two minutes, but during...
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Posted on June 24, 2006 12:29 AM • 16 Comments
I wrote earlier about how consultants for PG&E published a fraudulent article exonerating chromium-6. The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is now publishing a retraction of the paper. From the EWG press release:...
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Posted on June 2, 2006 2:33 PM • 14 Comments
After Fumento had been worked over by yours truly, Chris Mooney and PZ Myers, you'd think there would be nothing left, but Steve Reuland has taken just one paragraph from Fumento's column and found as many mistakes as I found...
Posted on March 3, 2006 9:08 AM • 5 Comments
Chris Mooney and PZ Myers complete the demolition of Fumento's article that I started here. Sir Oolius also got stuck in and managed to get one of Fumento's characteristically lame comebacks. Inspired by my post mentioning co-authorship chains with...
Posted on March 2, 2006 10:17 AM • 11 Comments
In Fumento's latest article he accuses the leading science journals of delivering "Political Science". His examples are a mixture of genuine problems discovered by others (like the Korean stem cell fraud) and bogus problems "discovered" by Fumento. Like this:...
Posted on February 28, 2006 12:44 PM • 12 Comments
Cathy Young disagrees with the Iain Murray/Tom Giovenetti line on cash for comment: Sadly, some conservatives are now defending the practice of opinion writers serving as hired guns (hired quills?) for business and lobbying interests. Among others, Iain Murray...
Posted on February 23, 2006 11:38 AM • 4 Comments
Good old Mike Fumento has another go at Javers: In the one instance we know of, the DC firm Patton Boggs and others invited Javers to play on the highly exclusive Bretton Woods golf course. I would guess that...
Posted on February 18, 2006 11:09 AM • 4 Comments
We previously encountered Tom Giovenetti, president of the IPI think tank when he told me that IPI keeps its funders secret: Second, regarding whether we take money from Microsoft, IPI has an absolute policy of protecting our donors' privacy. I'm...
Posted on February 10, 2006 12:00 PM • 10 Comments
The pro-payola people have launched a lame counter attack on Javers. Before we begin, note that even if they could prove Javers guilty of some wrong-doing, it would not mean that Fumento was not guilty of unethical behaviour. Anyway, Fumento...
Posted on February 6, 2006 12:06 AM • 4 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
