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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: 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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:57 PM • 45 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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 by Tim Lambert at 2:13 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:59 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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 by Tim Lambert at 10:52 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:07 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:22 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:00 PM • 71 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:29 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:33 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Fumento
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 by Tim Lambert at 9:08 AM • 5 Comments •
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