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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: Global Warming
Last year Inhofe released a list of 400 scientists who disputed mainstream climate science. But as Joe Romm and Andrew Dessler observed, the list was padded with TV weathermen, economists and so on and contained very few actual climate scientists....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:45 PM • 102 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
Jonathon Dursi details the spread of a bogus comparison between crime rate in US in Canada from John Lott to David Frum to Alan Gottlieb: So here's the path of the lie as far as I can see it: Aug...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:03 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: cherry picking
In Lott's latest column he cuts and pastes his previous cherry picking on England, so I'll just repeat my correction: He carefully picks his numbers to avoid mentioning the dramatic decline in violent crime in England since 1996. As for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:01 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
In his latest op-ed Lott continues his misrepresentations about crime in Australia and England: The British government banned handguns in January 1997 but recently reported that gun crime in England and Wales nearly doubled in the seven years from 1996...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:25 AM • 15 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
Lott has drafted yet another cherry-picked article where he pretends that crime in Australia is increasing despite plummeting crime rates here. Jonathan Dursi takes it apart....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:22 AM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
Over the past few years crime rates in Australia, Canada and England have fallen dramatically. For example, in NSW crime plunged to the lowest level in 20 years, in Canada, the 2003 homicide rate was the lowest in 36 years,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:44 PM • 20 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Washington DC
Lott has an article in the National Review Online where he claims that the Washingtonian DC handgun ban caused crime increases: Crime rose significantly after the gun ban went into effect. In the five years before Washington's ban in...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:06 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
Crime statistics for the last 12 months in NSW have been released. Most crime categories have decreased significantly. Indecent assault, act of indecency and other sexual offencesDown by 11.9% Robbery with a weapon not a firearm Down by 19.7%...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 PM • 20 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
Lehrer and Lott have recycled their previous cherrypicking exercise into an article in the Investor's Business Daily falsely claiming that gun control in Britain, Canada and Australia have lead to "historic increases in crime". Mostly they repeat their previous...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:22 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
In response to criticism that Lott used cherry picked numbers to claim that homicides had increased following gun registration in Canada, "Maxim" posted on Usenet: The law started in December 1998. Guns did not have to be registered until 2001....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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